22 April - Gender (National Election Day)

Today we brought you live updates from different polling station throughout the city of Cape Town as you are aware that today is dee day for our country. Our roving reporters are deployed all over ranging from Phillipi, Delft, Silvertown, Heideveld to Athlone to capture events as they unfold.

We heard from Nokuthula Mbethe – Coordinator of the Young Women in Leadership project at the Quaker Peace Center. The project’s objective is to create and sustain a platform for young women to voice and address issues of concern to them and to form qualitative partnerships with other organisations fighting for human rights, gender issues and other issues that concern women but uSis Nokuthula explained more. For more information go to www.quaker.org/capetown/gender.htm or contact their offices on (021) 685 7800.

We spoke to Nomcebo Manzini – from United Nations Development Fund for Women or UNIFEM. The women's fund was established in 1976 and it provides financial and technical assistance to innovative approaches aimed at fostering women's empowerment and gender equality. Today the organization's work touches the lives of women and girls in more than 100 countries. uSis Nomcebo explained more on how this fund has impacted South African women’s lives. For more information contact their offices on (011) 517 1579 or go to www.unifem.org.

We closed off the show with an election update again from Cindy Witten at the IEC Results Centre, Victor J in Hanover Park and Sasha Forbes in Lansdowne.