RESOLUTIONS
Conference acknowledges that HIV/AIDS is running rampant in our societies and that prevention campaigns have had little impact in combating the increase in infection.
Women are the most vulnerable to the threat of HIV/AIDS, both anatomically and socially and women also play a crucial role in the instilling of family, cultural and moral values in the formative years of the young and in community life.
We therefore resolve:
Women have through the decades been regarded as the cornerstone of community work and as community developers, as well as the producers of food and clothing for the daily livelihoods of their families and communities. Women have the power to transform, empower and unite their communities.
The formative years of children, from birth to age six, are crucial in the development of social and mental capabilities in adulthood. Children are the future of families, communities and the country, and to ensure a healthy future for all, it is essential that the needs of children in their formative years are catered for.
Children in their formative years who are deprived of basic nutrition are not able to later develop to their full mental capacity due to brain malnutrition. Children in their formative years who are also deprived of social skills are not able to be constructive members of society in later life.
We therefore resolve:
The women of the IFP have the experience, strength and integrity to spearhead the spread of the revolution of goodwill throughout South Africa.
Crime, and especially crimes against women and children are on the increase and general moral decay has set in amongst families and communities.
We therefore resolve:
We realise that there is a general decline in the world economy and that a recession is looming and also that the number of formal employment opportunities are declining. This means that there will be devastating consequences for the poorest societies such as our own.
It is a reality in the new democratic dispensation in South Africa that women still face gender discrimination in the work-place and at points of service delivery.
The IFP has always propagated that the path to economic liberation also lies within communities by way of self-help and self-reliance programmes through the advancement of life skills.
We therefore resolve:
The IFP Women’s Brigade believes in transparent leadership and governance with integrity and so vigorously rooting out all corruption within its own ranks as well as within the administration under its control.
Those in a position of power as representatives of the people should at all times adhere to strict rules of integrity, be realistic in their promises and be approachable.
We therefore resolve
The IFP Women’s Brigade acknowledges that there has been a constant decline in the provision of basic health-care and treatment in public health-care centres. This can be attributed to various factors such as the poor conditions of service for health workers and apparent mismanagement.
We therefore resolve:
The IFP Women’s Brigade acknowledges the rapid change of the world around us and that we must keep abreast of times, focusing on medical and technological advances. The mind is the greatest tool of empowerment we have and it must be empowered with the capacity to think beyond that which we now know.
We therefore resolve:
In further recognition of his leadership role both nationally and internationally we wish to congratulate His Excellency the President of the Inkatha Freedom Party, Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, on receiving earlier this year, the Charlton Heston Courage Under Fire Award from the American Conservative Union.
The IFP Women’s Brigade also congratulates His Excellency the President of the Inkatha Freedom Party, Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, on receiving the King Shaka Gold Medal, from His Majesty, King Zwelithini Goodwill ka Bhekuzulu.
Further, the IFP Women’s Brigade applauds and congratulates His Excellency, the President, Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, for his consistent and unwavering principle-centred leadership which has ensured that the Women’s Brigade grows from strength to strength in the face of trials and tribulations. The Women’s Brigade values, cherishes and holds in high esteem this personal sacrifice and selfless giving of His Excellency, the President, as it has benefited the Party and all the people of goodwill in the whole South Africa.
The IFP Women’s Brigade resolves to stand behind His Excellency’s consistent leadership and wishes to request His Excellency to continue to guide, counsel and lead the mothers and daughters of the IFP.