Johannesburg, South Africa (ADV) – The Malawian National Initiative for Civic Education (NICE) Trust has challenged women in the country to support one another for the sake of progress.
According to the trust’s Civic Education Officer in the Nsanje District, Kondwani Malunga,the trust found out that there were gaps in the way that the aspirants were articulating their manifestos, and they felt that it was important to assist the women to develop manifestos that would motivate people in the community to vote for them.
“If you start quarrelling amongst yourself, which is not healthy, you would fall prey to your male counterparts because they will use your weaknesses to strengthen themselves and consequently you lose the fight to lead and also the trust of the people,” she said.
Malunga was speaking during training for female aspirants on manifesto development hosted by the Youth Coalition for the Consolidation of Democracy (YCD), an agency which implemented a 50-50 campaign, in Bangula.
It included training on how Local and Constituency Development Funds are sourced and managed, Political Party Law and role of MPs and councillors so that they would be able to give their manifestos in a manner that will convince the electorate.
An independent aspirant for Nsanje South West (SW), Eurita Ntiza, said she had large support from the constituency but she said she would love that YCD does their programs in accordance to their plans and not be induced by other aspirants and that women work together towards common goal.
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) aspirant for the SW constituency, Helen Buluma, urged communities to vote for a woman who would be able to extrapolate their manifestos and not those that were in town castigating and shaming their friends just to win cheap popularity, we all want a woman to succeed regardless of party leanings.
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