[3] Missions include eradicating gender-based violence, improve sex education as well as getting more women in positions of government.

[4] Women Forward has caused controversies surrounding its view on rapists as well as allegedly excluding sex workers on their platform.

[5][6] As of the 2019 South African general election, Women Forward has not won any seats in the National Assembly or Provincial Legislatures.

[7] Ngobese was inspired to create Women Forward by her grandfather's advocacy for "female leadership"; he wrote about the immense influence a mother has on a child as well as how his wife edited every one of his speeches.

[8] Women Forward was founded on 25 June 2008, as an independent political party out of South Africa.

Their main issues are: Their manifesto also has a "call to action", urging the people of South Africa to come together to empower women to help them "achieve self-determination.