Sisisi Tolase suffered her first loss since becoming women’s league president with her allies failing to bring back a win in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal
The president wants women to push for 40% of government procurement for female entrepreneurs
Bathabile Dlamini’s prospects of a politically resuscitation have all but disappeared with the election of Sisisi Tolashe
A bottleneck in registering delegates delayed the conference proceedings
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s allies have kickstarted their campaigns, with names such as Tina Joemat-Pettersson also expected to stand for top positions
The presidential hopeful has called into question the legality of the league’s disbandment, arguing it was done to manipulate the December conference
Some leaders said that Dlamini-Zuma had received her due support from women and it was now Sisulu’s turn for a position in the presidency
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The women in the NEC are said to have fought tooth and nail to have Dlamini brought back after she was pulled out by officials.Â
The NWC has recommended two other names to help Mbete as task team convenor, but Bathabile Dlamini failed to make the cut
Pundits weigh in on whether the league can be revived after its national executive committee was disbanded
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NEC member Thandi Modise earlier this month recommended that the women’s league be disbanded because it was a fractured structure
The ANC Women’s League president has said she is ready to continue leading the organisation
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As the president of the body, Bathabile Dlamini’s guilty verdict imperils the existence of the league
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The women’s league is grappling with another scandal involving R2-million missing from its North West province kitty.
The ANC women’s league heard calls for it to be disbanded and for Bathabile Dlamini to step aside during its national working committee meeting last week.
As the party celebrates its 110th anniversary, President Cyril Ramaphosa says members must restore the ANC’s integrity to win the confidence and respect of South Africans.
ANC secretary general Ace Magashule has been ordered by the party’s NEC to publicly apologise for writing an unauthorised letter suspending President Cyril Ramaphosa
ANCWL urges Magashule to humble himself and stop damaging the already weakened ruling party
The ANCWL had called for the national spokesperson’s suspension on Monday
The league wants five women premiers and a deputy president – but knows it will face resistance from men in the party
It takes political mobilisation, education, laws and economic opportunities
Intra-elite contestation on land seldom takes the often bitter struggles of the urban poor seriously
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.
The ANCWL held a meeting on Monday to nominate their preferred ANC leaders to serve the ANC after the December conference.
To the women’s league’s chagrin, its former head is campaigning for Ramaphosa to be ANC leader
Every week sees renewed infighting and it will only get worse as it gets closer to the party’s elective conference
ANC presidential hopeful at the Marikana Anniversary was ‘short-sighted’ and ‘ill-advised’.
The sudden push for Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to become the ANC president seems disingenuous.
Naming Dlamini-Zuma as its candidate is a slap in the face for other capable women.
The ANC Women’s League criticised a newspaper report which claimed that its president was drunk while addressing a gala dinner in Germiston.
Zuma continues to call for unity but 2017 is expected to be one of the most divisive years for an ANC that is already riddled with factionalism.
Remembering Khwezi should not be reduced to the rape trial, the way she was treated and the injustice of it all, writes Ra’eesa Pather.