Mandy Wiener spoke to political analyst Dr Fikile Vilakazi, about the ANC's first female premier candidate in KZN, Nomusa Dube-Ncube.
While the announcement of KwaZulu-Natal's first female premier candidate has been broadly welcomed, one political analyst has warned against tokenism.
Dube-Ncube is the province's finance MEC and will take over the reins from Sihle Zikalala, who stepped down as premier on Friday. Mandy Wiener spoke to political analyst Dr Fikile Vilakazi about what this meant for the ANC in the province. Dr Fikile Vilakazi, political analyst Even though she knows she's leading the agenda of the ANC, she must be given the leeway to be herself.The concern raised by political observers is that Dube-Ncube would be leading a province that was deeply patriarchal and that her leadership would not make any real change.
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