Marginalized Knowledge: An Agenda for Indigenous Knowledge Development and Integration with Other Forms of Knowledge

9. Conclusion
The KwaNdaya Production Centre project proves that women still play a vital role in development as principal producers of food, managers of household resources and custodians of family welfare. As in most other rural areas of developing countries, women are still often confronted with role conflict, and constraints associated with cultural norms, values and beliefs. KwaNdaya women also sometimes experience such challenges as the theory that, since black rural women do most of their work in the agricultural sector, which is regarded as the informal sector. This project proves what the White Paper on Land Policy asserted?, that land redistribution gives priority to rural women, in particular to emergent farmers. Women have been especially earmarked for assistance because they have vast experience of group participation in many development initiatives (DLA, 1997).
The KwaNdaya project also supports what has been highlighted by the government as a concern with the development and empowerment of women, which has been emphasized in official development policy documents, particularly the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP). In his State of the Nation address in 1994, President Mandela also maintained that true freedom could be achieved only when women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression.


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UZ Researcher, May 2005
“The boldest, most comprehensive strategic plan on AIDS in the world”⁵⁰ fails to address gender
Sunet Jordaan⁵¹ [e-mail]

Department of Anthropology and Development Studies

University of Zululand

South Africa

Abstract

The South African government struggles to come to terms with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) pandemic raging in South Africa. Originally, denial of the existence of HIV/AIDS, inconsistencies over the link between HIV and AIDS as well as unclear standpoints from the South African government regarding the causes of HIV inhibited all prevention strategies.

These problems lead to slow progress of the implementation of HIV/AIDS prevention policies by the South African government. In 1998 the government adopted the Government Aids Action Plan with a focus on HIV/AIDS as well as STIs. In February 2000 the DoH published the HIV/AIDS/STD Strategic Plan for South Africa, 2000-2005. This was the guideline for all HIV/AIDS prevention strategies for the South African health community for five years. In March 2007 a HIV/AIDS/STI Strategic Plan for South Africa, 2007-2011 was launched.
HIV/AIDS prevention strategies should form part of development planning and one of the problems of development planning is that it can be gender-blind (Baden and Goetz, 1998).