Call for free pads to poor

Parliament’s multiparty women’s caucus (MPWC), which supports a recommendation that sanitary products be exempt from VAT, encouraged all South Africans to submit comment to National Treasury on what items should be on the VAT-free list.

MPWC member and African Christian Democratic Party MP Cheryllyn Dudley said the MPWC received a briefing from treasury indicating zero-rated sanitary products would apply to both rich and poor and would therefore have little impact.

It recommended that free sanitary towels should be provided to indigent and poor South Africans.

The MPWC resolved that women must be empowered to manufacture sanitary towels.

It could be done in co-operatives. Dudley called on government “to find the budget to provide sanitary items free where necessary”. – ANA

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