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Calls are intensifying for former Minister of Social Development Sisisi Tolashe to resign from Parliament and relinquish her role as president of the ANC Women’s League Photo: Phando Jikelo / RSA Parliament

ANC NWC resolve to show Tolashe the door

The decisions follows the working committee’s meeting on monday where it resolved that Tolashe should resign as an MP and the president of the ANC’s woman league

Allies of former ANC Women’s League president Bathabile Dlamini emerged as the victors in two of the most influential provinces during the organisation’s elections on Monday.  (Elmond Jiyane, GCIS)

Bathabile Dlamini allies win big at ANCWL provincial conferences

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

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo Delwyn Verasamy, M&G)

Ramaphosa calls on ANC women to secure victory in the 2024 elections

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. Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Ramaphosa camp solidifies strength in ANCWL with Tolashe presidency

Bathabile Dlamini’s prospects of a politically resuscitation have all but disappeared with the election of Sisisi Tolashe

Baleka Mbete Mbete headed the national task team mandated with preparing the ANCWL for the conference. (Oupa Nkosi, MG)

Bury the demon of factionalism, ANCWL’s Baleka Mbete tells conference delegates

A bottleneck in registering delegates delayed the conference proceedings

Bathabile Dlamini. File photo

Sisisi Tolashe versus Bathabile Dlamini for ANC Women’s League president

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s allies have kickstarted their campaigns, with names such as Tina Joemat-Pettersson also expected to stand for top positions

Lindiwe Sisulu
(2004-09; 2014-18
and 2019-21). (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

ANC Women’s League disbandment was unlawful, says Lindiwe Sisulu

The presidential hopeful has called into question the legality of the league’s disbandment, arguing it was done to manipulate the December conference

Lindiwe Sisulu

ANC’s most powerful women conclude on backing Sisulu ahead of NDZ during weekend meeting, say insiders

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

Bathabile Dlamini (Oupa Nkosi)

Bathabile Dlamini reinstated in ANC Women’s League task team

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.

Baleka Mbete Mbete headed the national task team mandated with preparing the ANCWL for the conference. (Oupa Nkosi, MG)

ANC recommends Baleka Mbete as head of ANCWL task team

The NWC has recommended two other names to help Mbete as task team convenor, but Bathabile Dlamini failed to make the cut

African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) members seen singing during Winnie Mandela’s funeral at Orlando Stadium in Soweto. ((Photo by Bongani Siziba/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Is the ANC Women’s League dying a slow death?

Pundits weigh in on whether the league can be revived after its national executive committee was disbanded

Bathabile Dlamini’s presidential loss to Sisisi Tolashe arguably severed the last hydra head of the Radical Economic Transformation faction.

Bathabile Dlamini’s last-ditch attempt to save ANCWL thwarted

NEC member Thandi Modise earlier this month recommended that the women’s league be disbanded because it was a fractured structure

Women’s league heavyweights such as Bathable Dlamini might not have any leeway to exert power and influence in the election of the new ANC leadership

Bathabile Dlamini lives to fight another day as the top six blink first

The ANC Women’s League president has said she is ready to continue leading the organisation

Bathabile Dlamini (Oupa Nkosi)

ANC Women’s League could dissolve following Dlamini verdict

As the president of the body, Bathabile Dlamini’s guilty verdict imperils the existence of the league

ANCWL treasurer general Maite Nkoana-Mashabaneg: (Photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

ANC Women’s League to investigate missing R10-million

The women’s league is grappling with another scandal involving R2-million missing from its North West province kitty.

ANCWL president Bathabile Dlamini. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Bathabile Dlamini resists calls to step aside as ANC Women’s League president

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.

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo by Mlungisi Louw/Volksblad/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Ramaphosa warns ANC members to get with party renewal programme or get out

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.

Suspense: ANC secretary general, Ace Magashule. (Photo by Gallo Images/Papi Morake)

Apologise or face action — NEC instructs Magashule

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

The ANC’s Women’s League has urged temporarily suspended secretary general Ace Magashule to “humble himself”

ANCWL dumps Magashule as party leadership meets to discuss his fate

ANCWL urges Magashule to humble himself and stop damaging the already weakened ruling party

ANC national spokesperson Pule Mabe. (Gallo Images)

Mabe asks for leave over allegations of sexual harassment

The ANCWL had called for the national spokesperson’s suspension on Monday