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Recognise care work

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Recognise care work Deputy Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Mmapaseka Steve Letsike, has called on African governments to move care work from the margins of economic policy and recognise it as essential infrastructure underpinning growth, employment and social development. Addressing the African Union Commission’s inaugural Africa Care Forum in Addis Ababa on Wednesday, Letsike said Africa’s economies cannot achieve inclusive growth while childcare, healthcare, disability support, domestic work and other forms of paid and unpaid care remain undervalued and disproportionately carried by women. “Care is not the soft edge of the economy; it is the infrastructure that makes the economy possible,” Letsike said. The Deputy Minister is representing South Africa at the three-day Forum, which is currently underway under the theme: “Placing Care at the Centre of Africa’s Development Agenda”. The Forum seeks to advance an African care agenda and address t

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