Author: Zamabomvu Ngubane

Every August, the country turns its attention to women. Panels are convened. Tributes are published. Stages fill with stories of progress. And then September arrives, and the structural conditions that govern the financial lives of most South African women remain precisely as they were. I am no longer satisfied with that cycle. This Women’s Month, I want a harder conversation about the data we are ignoring, the barriers we are not naming, and the concrete steps organisations must take if the next generation of women leaders is going to be something more than a talking point. The numbers we need…