#YoungTrailblazers: Candice Chirwa the Minister of Menstruation, South Africa’s first Minister to fulfil her duties
By Wanique Block In 2018 South Africa joined a handful of countries bidding farewell well to the shackles of tampon tax. With this, a zero percent tax rate was applied on all sanitary and menstruation products. Prior to this, all menstruation and sanitary products were taxed at 15% VAT. Tampon tax refers to a system that enforces extremely high taxation rates on all menstruation products such as tampons, pad, panty-liners and menstruation […]