By Johnathan Paoli
Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Sindisiwe Chikunga has unveiled her department’s budget as a tool for breaking the wheel of systemic exclusion.
She has called for a deepening of rights-based inclusion and accelerated transformation through legislative reform, economic participation and coordinated policy action.
Tabling the department’s R1.36 billion budget for the 2025/26 financial year under the theme “From Mandates to Meaning: Advancing Inclusion through Law, Budget and Action”, Chikunga used her speech to reflect on the Freedom Charter’s legacy and 30 years of democracy.
She said it the time had come to transform policy mandates into mechanisms for tangible change.
“Now more than ever, there is an urgent need for us to bridge the gap between constitutionally assured rights and the lived realities of women, youth, and persons with disabilities,” the minister said.
Of the total allocation, R1.1 billion will go
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