CGE ANNUAL REPORT

2022/23 ANNUAL REPORT

Name of Commissioner O. Ngoma-Diseko

Strategic Outcomes

Quarter 2 Activity Report

Strategic Outcome 1: To ensure the creation and implementation of an enabling legislative framework that promotes the attainment of Gender Equality.

Inputs into the Basic Education Laws Amendment (Bela) Bill: The purpose was to insert and amend the South African Schools Act, 1996 to create an offence in respect of the interruption, disruption, or hindrance of school, among others, The input of the CGE related to learner pregnancy and related matters. Way Forward / Recommendations: 1. Monitor and oversee the implementation of the legislation and the Policy for the Prevention and Management of Learner Pregnancy. 2. Monitor if the implementation of the regulations governing the teachers who are responsible for statutory rape and related consequences. 3. Public education and information regarding the teenage and learner pregnancy which must be characterised as statutory rape. National Gender Machinery and Youth and Persons with Disability Consultation: The purpose was for CGE to participate in the DWYPWD stakeholder engagement to review the NGM and how it can be strengthened: 21 – 23 September 2022. Way Forward / Recommendations: 1. Monitor and oversee the implementation of the legislation and the Policy for the Prevention and Management of Learner Pregnancy. 2. Monitor if the implementation of the regulations governing the teachers who are responsible for statutory rape and related consequences. 3. Public education and information regarding the teenage and learner pregnancy which must be characterised as statutory rape. The CGE must monitor the NGM as it is a critical structure to implement the gender transformation agenda.

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