On this Women's Day
Friday, March 08, 2019
This year’s theme recognises the role of innovation in advancing gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. It is a call for everyone to do things differently if we are to achieve transformative and better development outcomes for women, girls, men and boys in our society.
The state of women participation in innovation and science globally and in the SADC region remain low. Women and girls globally, including in our region, continue to be less engaged and under-represented in technology and innovation, and this creates a missed opportunity in terms of their influence and ideas in transforming our society.
The contest had 10 beautiful young girls as finalists and unfortunately only one could wear the crown.The judges picked Anicia Gaothuse. To all those who feel their contestant should have won ahead of Anicia for whatever reason, hardly; the judges found Anicia to be the best among the best, so desist from disrespecting our newly crowned queen on social media or anywhere else, for that matter! Each of the 10 beautiful young women had supporters...