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    Promotion of gender equality -a case study
    (UWC, 2025) Sinden Elaine
    The Constitution of SA 1996 (Act 108 of 1996) establishes the need for equality, and opportunity or access to government services and enshrines local government as one of the three spheres of government which is mandated to uphold and ensure adherence to sensitive gender dynamics. In terms of the above, the study aims to investigate the increasing awareness for the need for representativeness in local government in recent years in the context of the draft gender policy of the City of Cape Town (CCT). The emphasis on gender, rather on women, implies the need to develop effective linkages between gender and other forms of inequality through concerted policy efforts. Since coming to office in 1994, the Government of South Africa (SA) has made strong and legal binding commitments to uphold and promote gender equality and has established comprehensive national machinery to implement and monitor these commitments. The study of national policy focuses on the national/local machinery which was instituted by government to give guidance and to monitor the implementation of gender equality.