'The enemy of women is women': Sizophila Mkhize blames ANCWL for male-dominated ANC leadership

ANC youth leader and PEC member Sizophila Mkhize has laid the blame for the slow progression of women in securing influential party positions at the door of the women's league.

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Mkhize spoke to TimesLIVE on the sidelines of the ANC's highly contested 55th national elective conference on Sunday. This follows an upset on Saturday night over the first deputy-secretary position nomination. Joemat-Pettersson's nomination was supported by the Eastern Cape and Western Cape, allowing her to reach the required threshold of 1,109 nominations to make it to the ballot.

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