Only two women from seven provinces were appointed as female premiers by the national executive committee of the ANC yesterday.
The ANC Women’s League is in conflict with President Cyril Ramaphosa after the league’s call for 50- 50 gender parity in government leadership seemed to have fallen on deaf ears.
“The reason the special NEC meeting took so long was because women could not agree with some of the names punted by the committee, but in the end we were defeated,” she told The Citizen. “This decision to brush our plea aside shows beyond any shadow of doubt that women still have a long way to go to be taken serious in leadership positions both in government and in the private sector,” Matuba said.
“We need equal representation, not only in the appointment of premiers and ministers, but also in the appointment of speakers, MECs [executive committee members]…”
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