ANC Women’s League convener Baleka Mbete has called on delegates to its national conference to set aside the “disease” of factionalism and to focus on improving the conditions under which South African women live.
Mbete said the ANCWL needed to re-establish itself at community level, working with local structures, from youth to retirees, on campaigns which were socially beneficial and which would re-ignite its relationship with women in society.
Social programmes needed to be de-politicised – and kept out of the political battles inside the party and with the ANC’s rivals. “But we focused on consolidation of the achievements of eras before our own. We did not seek to pretend there had ever been angels among us,”Mbete said. “This will not only strengthen the ANC. A strong ANC is needed in 2024. The need for the Women’s League to be its best and its strongest cannot be overemphasised,” Mbete said.
She said delegates needed to “deepen the lessons” from the ANC MPs who arrived in the first democratically elected parliament and had to learn to work with their former enemies to create a new legislature.
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