Very little research has been done in Sub-Saharan Africa to determine whether gender gaps exist in relation to participation, voting behaviour or attitudes toward women’s representation in government, culture and gender equality. While data from the Afrobarometer (a survey database) have been used to determine gender gaps in participation little has been written on other types of gender gaps. I will discuss the results of a survey done by Citizen Surveys of a random stratified sample of 1300 South Africans, regarding attitudes toward gender equality, culture and tradition. This can be considered the first baseline study of gender attitudes in South Africa because it goes much wider than the type of data gathered by the World Value Survey and the Afrobarometer. The survey also includes data on attitudes toward gender based violence, homophobia, trust in government, women’s representation in government and voting behaviour which forms part of the larger research project.