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Let a woman lead us - Mbeki
05/05/2006 17:12 - (SA)
Phuthaditjhaba - President Thabo Mbeki says he sees no reason why the next president of the country could not be a woman.
"I have been criticised about this, but as far as I am concerned the next president of South Africa should be a woman," Mbeki told hundreds of women in Phuthaditjhaba in the Free State on Friday.
Mbeki also urged women to rise up to the opportunities being created in Africa.
"They should not hold back and say 'let the men lead us'," he said.
Mbeki received a memorandum from women in the province in recognition of what he had done for women.
Hundreds of women, wearing the yellow t-shirts of the Free State African National Congress Women's League or green and black and traditional dress, danced to traditional music before he arrived.
Women wrapped in traditional Basotho blankets lined the streets and his arrival was heralded by their high pitched ululation.
Free State premier Beatrice Marshoff said the women of the Free State reconfirmed their commitment towards equality in the country.
Mbeki is on a two-day municipal imbizo in the eastern Free State.
- SAPA
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