Women’s League Pushes For First Female President Ahead Of ANC’s 2022 Elective Conference

INSIDE POLITICS|

WITH less than 24 months before the ANC’s elective conference, behind-the-scenes lobbying for the first female presidential candidate has commenced, with the governing party’s women’s league leading the charge.

At 109 years old, the ANC has never had a woman President or Deputy President.

Ahead of the Nasrec elective conference in 2017, many backers of Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s candidacy argued that it was time for a female president.

Those who didn’t back Dlamini-Zuma’s candidacy argued that at least the Deputy President should be a woman and backed Lindiwe Sisulu. In the end, neither woman made it into the ANC’s Top Six. Only one woman made it: Jessie Duarte, as the Deputy Secretary General.

Inside Politics looks at thee possible female candidates for the ANC’s top job.

LINDIWE SISULU|

Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has already made her move, and is understood to be