Last year we informed this House that we were finalising consultation towards the Women Empowerment and Gender Equality Bill. This Bill is based on the international instruments that South Africa has signed and ratified, including the Beijing Platform for Action; the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, CEDAW; the African Union Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa; the SADC Gender Protocol; our Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I am pleased to inform this House that the draft Bill was approved for public consultation by Cabinet in August 2012. The draft Bill, which incorporates input from the public participation process, was tabled at Nedlac for negotiation. The revised Bill will be tabled in Cabinet for consideration before presentation to the National Assembly.