The ANC Women’s League has said that the graft-accused former mayor and eThekwini region heavyweight is one of its ‘best campaigners’
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The idea was rejected at the governing party’s last policy conference in 2017
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The question that must also arise is why we can’t identify and celebrate the women who supported the former presidents of the organisation
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Though Dlamini-Zuma was snubbed at the ANC presidency, three of the candidates who had appeared on her slate made it to the top six.
Zulu said an eye should be kept on the election of the party’s NEC members because: "We want to see more women in the leadership structures."
Zuma said “ill-discipline” has caused ANC members to take the party to court or to side openly with the opposition.
‘We are going to have a ballot paper at the ANC conference after 105 years for [a] president that is a female’
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Many have been vying to get Mabuza’s approval but he has been coy and keeping his cards close to his chest.
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Zuma’s support could do more harm than good for the candidate’s ANC presidency campaign
In recent years, a new and assertive feminist movement has emerged and attacks on the president have become common cause
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Recently, the ANC Women’s League also made similar remarks.
One faction argues that Jacob Zuma must quit and the other is intent on electing a successor who will cover for him.
The timing of the fraud claims against the finance minister has raised suspicions among close to a dozen of the party’s NEC members.
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Some members say the ANCWL’s new "young women’s desk" is a "calculated move to sideline younger women and suppress them".
The ANC Women’s League will defend any ANC leader, says secretary general Meokgo Matuba.