Wednesday, March 23, 2011

SOUTH-AFRICAN WOMEN REAFFIRM THEIR SUPPORT AND SOLIDARITY WITH THEIR SISTERS IN WESTERN SAHARA

















The National Union of  Saharawi Women´s International Officer, Suelma Beiruk, has just been received in the South-African capital by the President of the ANC´s Women´s League who has reaffirmed their support and solidarity with the people and women óf the Africa´s last colony: Western Sahara.
The President of the ANC Women's League and Minister of the Basic Education, Ms. Angie Motshekga, renewed last friday the firm support of her country to the just cause of the Saharawi people, according to the Saharawi Embassy in South Africa.

During her meeting with a Saharawi delegation at headquarters of the SADR Embassy in Pretoria, Ms. Motshekga confirmed that the supporting position of her country “stayed in the past and will remain in the future”
She saluted struggle of the Saharawi women, considering it a “unique example of resistance in the world”
The president of the ANC Women's League welcomed her invitation to attend the Saharawi women´s  conference which is scheduled next April 20th to 24th, adding that it will certainly be an “occasion to strengthen the close ties between the ANC women's league and UNSW”
 Mrs. Suelma Beiruk briefed struggle of the Saharawi women in the refugee camps occupied territories of Western Sahara, as well as the next congress of Saharawi women.
The meeting also focused on the latest developments of the Saharawi cause and bilateral relations between the peoples and governments of both countries.