To mark the national Women's Day on Monday, we mobilised 30 000 women who gathered at Absa Stadium in East London to celebrate this day. We received a visionary address by the President of our country, hon President Jacob Zuma. We are taking an approach that enables us to reach out to women in rural and urban areas; women who are employed and those who are unemployed; and women who are economically empowered and those who live in poverty. We are doing this because we seek to address the various limitations of patriarchy which negatively affect these women's lives and limit their development and success.