ANC Women's League launches election campaign

The African National Congress Women’s League kicked off its “60 Days of Electioneering Non-Stop” campaign on Monday, hoping to assist the ANC to win the elections by more than 70%, the league said.

ANC Women’s League president Angie Motshekga said the league’s electioneering campaign would start in Kliptown, Johannesburg, on January 31.

The campaign would publicise the ANC’s election manifesto launched earlier this month, focusing on issues affecting women, such as poverty, crime, unemployment and broad-based black economic empowerment.

Responding to reports that all nine premiers on the ruling party’s candidate list would be men, the league said the ANC remained committed to 50/50 gender representation as resolved in its elective conference in Polokwane in 2007.

Motshekga said the women’s league wanted to ensure that the ruling party obtained a “big win” to ensure that more party members were deployed in government.

On the legal woes currently being faced by ANC president Jacob Zuma, the league said it would support the framework on the way forward provided by the ANC, and it would “not be quiet” in its support of the party president.—Sapa