She made this statement in her address during a Women Seminar held at Greenside Lodge in Rustenburg, North West, on Saturday.

The theme of the event was the empowerment of women in business.

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Addressing this gathering, Mkhwebane told women that when repeating the famous slogan "You Strike a Woman, You Strike a Rock/Wathint’ Abafazi, Wathint’ Imbokotho” they should really mean it, and use it with purpose.

"Let us use the legal instruments - including the Constitution, the law, policies and other prescripts - to liberate ourselves from the manacles of gender discrimination and male chauvinism. Failing to do so only turns that revered chant into an empty slogan. And when we echo the war cry “wa thintha abafazi/ wa thintha imbokodo/ uzakufa”, we must do so with a sense of purpose and mean it with every fibre of our beings, for it is not yet uhuru," Adv Mkhwebane added.

This comes amidst a vigorous debate in the country around government and businesses’ failure to ensure that women are given the space for self-emancipation.

Various organisations have recently raised a number of concerns about the dwindling number of women in positions of power - both in government and the private sector.

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