The definition of
"Women"
is
"Well-Organized Men".

-- Rose Molokoane
2007
Women of the Year
Award

Thanks to
Luckebabe or Doreen,
who shared this at her blog.

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Rose Molokoane was awarded the Women of the Year Outstanding Achievement Award sponsored by Good Housekeeping and announced by Comedian Victoria Wood.   The award acknowledges and celebrates a phenomenal achievement against all odds by a woman whose indomitable spirit has shown the world that anything is possible.

Rose Molokoane's story began in Oukasie, one of the most famous informal settlements in South Africa where she was born and raised. Rose is now the National Chairperson for the 80,000 member South African Homeless People's Federation and a board member of Shack/Slum Dwellers International. She has supported and helped more than 150,000 squatters, a vast majority of whom are women to pool their savings. This in turn, won them sufficient standing to negotiate with the government for a progressive housing policy that has already produced 15,000 new homes and secured more than 1,000 hectares of government land for development. A South African veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, this courageous and determined woman is one of the most internationally recognised grassroots activists involved in land tenure and housing issues around the world.