MODISE MOJAPELO: I do not think that women get the same rights as men in sports. If well-known clubs could introduce splitting promotions equally with the different sexes, instead of [favouring] the one gender because they're making more money.
Following South Africa’s women’s national football team Banyana Banyana’s victory in the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations and their qualifying for the Fifa Women’s World Cup 2023, made the country very proud.
Their victory also sparked a lot of chat around gender equality and fair remuneration for the winners. Conversations on various social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook exposed the gender inequality existing in a Constitution that vowed no one should be discriminated against based on gender or sex.
The Randburg Sun spoke to a few players at the Randburg Football Club school holiday soccer camp and asked whether women received the same rights as men in sports and how this problem could be resolved.
This is what they said…
OMPHEMETSE TSHAKHUMA: I don’t think that women’s sports are equal to men’s sports because of the things promoted outside of sport like sexism. This has a lot to do with equality because people tend to think that women are weaker than men and less aggressive and won’t be graded at the same level as men.KHULISO MFEKA: Women don’t get the same rights as men in sports and it’s unfair because some men players don’t have to work side jobs and work late at night, whereas women are expected to work a second job or maybe even three jobs and still make time to go to training.PIETER WILKE: I don’t think women get the same rights as men in sports because the coaches don’t treat them the same as men, so the women don’t feel that important during training. I think it’s important that girls and boys both focus on soccer but we need to figure out a system to get the girls to enjoy it more without feeling degraded.
