{"id":5552,"date":"2015-02-02T13:09:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T06:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2015-02-02T13:09:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T06:09:56","slug":"men-and-women-can-never-be-equal-mugabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/men-and-women-can-never-be-equal-mugabe\/","title":{"rendered":"Men and women can never be equal: Mugabe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly elected African Union (AU) chairperson Robert Mugabe said men and women differ to such an extent biologically that \u201cnot even gays\u201d can bear babies.<\/p>\n<p>Mugabe, joined by AU Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, addressed a press conference in the Nelson Mandela plenary hall at AU headquarters in Addis Ababa late on Saturday night after a late-running sitting of the AU assembly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been working for equal work for equal wages. But total parity, there are certain things men can do that women may not be able to do. You can\u2019t suckle babies can you, can you bear them in your tummies?\u201d he asked a male journalist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven the gay ones, they can\u2019t do that. So there is no parity biologically, but what we have done in Zimbabwe was to bring about real, real, real parity. Our women can become ministers of government, judges, farmers, pilots, female pilots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said this after he was asked about similar remarks he had made to a journalist earlier in the week on the topic of the summit, which was women empowerment&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zimbabwe News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.citypress.co.za\/news\/mugabe-men-women-can-never-equal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly elected African Union (AU) chairperson Robert Mugabe said men and women differ to such an extent biologically that \u201cnot even gays\u201d can bear babies. Mugabe, joined by AU Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, addressed a press conference in the Nelson Mandela plenary hall at AU headquarters in Addis Ababa late on Saturday night after a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[296,258,256,580,4409,4410,4411,427,257,426,254,4693,4686,421],"class_list":["post-5552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-addis-ababa","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african-union","tag-au-chairperson","tag-dlamini-zuma","tag-equal","tag-mugabe","tag-news","tag-robert-mugabe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}