African National Congress Women's League

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The African National Congress Women's League (short ANC Women's League or ANCWL, German for example: Women's League of the African National Congress) is a sub-organization of the South African ruling party African National Congress (ANC).

history

In 1931 the Bantu Women's League was founded (German roughly: Women's League of Blacks). The first president was Charlotte Maxeke. Integration into the ANC took place from 1943, when women were first admitted as ANC members, to 1948, when the African National Congress Women's League was officially established. First chairman of the ANCWL was Madie Beatrice Hall Xuma , who was replaced by Ida Mntwane in 1948 . The ANCWL participated in the Defiance Campaign in 1952 and four years later in the protests of August 9, 1956 against the passport laws . The then ANCWL chairman Lilian Ngoyiwas one of the leaders of the protest march. Ngoyi became the first woman to serve on the ANC's Executive Committee that same year.

Other well-known activists of the African National Congress Women's League were Frances Baard , Rahima Moosa and Dorothy Nyembe . During the ban of the ANC from 1960 to 1990, the ANC Women Section was founded in exile in Tanzania . Its chairman was Gertrude Shope , who was also elected chairman of the ANCWL in 1991 at the first conference on South African soil after the ban in Kimberley was lifted . She was replaced in 1993 by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela , Nelson Mandela's long-time wife . Madizikela-Mandela remained president of the league until 2003.

In the run-up to the first South African free elections in 1994 , the ANCWL took part in the negotiations on the new constitution. In 1996, she was instrumental in the adoption of the Choice of Termination of Pregnancy Act (Act on the facilitation of abortion ) and the Domestic Violence Act (Act on domestic violence involved). In 2003 the ANCWL issued a new statute. The ANCWL occasionally speaks out on rape and other crimes against women.

In 2015, Bathabile Dlamini, who also belonged to Zuma II's cabinet , became the new president after a battle vote against incumbent Angie Motshekga. She was also a member of the Ramaphosa I cabinet formed in 2018, but not the Ramaphosa II cabinet appointed in 2019 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b ANC Women's League (ANCWL). South African History Online, archived from the original on May 17, 2012 ; Retrieved on April 10, 2014 (English, ANCWL history at sahistory.org.za).
  2. ↑ Winnie Mandela-Madizikela at Who's Who South Africa ( Memento from June 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  3. ^ ANCWL votes for change, elects Dlamini as president. Mail & Guardian, August 8, 2015, accessed August 8, 2015