The ANC Women’s League’s top brass will spend the next two weeks in Nelson Mandela Bay drumming up support for the ANC ahead of the 2016 local government elections.
President of the Women’s League Bathabile Dlamini was in the Bay on Sunday and yesterday to discuss campaign plans which will lead up to a national launch of their Charlotte Maxeke Women’s Brigade at Dan Qeqe Stadium in two weeks’ time.
Senior members of the league will drive a programme to encourage women to be active participants in the municipal elections.
They will spend the next couple of weeks holding branch meetings, community meetings and doing door-to-door ward visits.
Asked what the Women’s League would be doing to ensure its members emerged in prominent leadership positions within the ANC’s Bay regional structures, Dlamini said it all depended on the women themselves as the party’s constitution was fair toward women.
The ANC hopes to hold a regional elective conference this month, but some branches are yet to hold branch general meetings.
“The constitution of the ANC says there must be 50% of women in the structures of the ANC.
“Where you have more women as officials, it means women in those areas have been able to work hard … In the whole membership of the ANC, more than 60% are women.
“As long as we mobilise women and develop them…they have the power; it depends on us,” Dlamini said.
The league’s deputy secretary general, Weziwe Tikana, said: “We are here in the metro for the sole purpose of re-mobilising, galvanising of people to support the ANC.
“We will do that through visiting households, visiting members of the ANC, and convening branch meeting in all 60 wards.
“We are preparing our electioneering machinery. We, members of the ANC, have a responsibility to get people to vote for the ANC.”
The Women’s League held its national executive committee meeting at the weekend, and reflected on their programmes since the national electoral conference.
They also reflected on their programmes for the 16 Days of Activism against the violence and abuse of women and children, which ends on Thursday.
Dlamini said they wanted to focus on abuse prevention campaigns, by encouraging women to get out of abusive relationships at the first sign of abuse.
“We must make sense to women. On the first day that your partner insults you, you have to leave. If he slaps you, don’t wait for the second slap.
“It’s better to leave the money and look for a place where there is peace,” Dlamini said.
Women’s league targets PE ahead of in run-up to election
President of the Women’s League Bathabile Dlamini was in the Bay on Sunday and yesterday to discuss campaign plans which will lead up to a national launch of their Charlotte Maxeke Women’s Brigade at Dan Qeqe Stadium in two weeks’ time.
Senior members of the league will drive a programme to encourage women to be active participants in the municipal elections.
They will spend the next couple of weeks holding branch meetings, community meetings and doing door-to-door ward visits.
Asked what the Women’s League would be doing to ensure its members emerged in prominent leadership positions within the ANC’s Bay regional structures, Dlamini said it all depended on the women themselves as the party’s constitution was fair toward women.
The ANC hopes to hold a regional elective conference this month, but some branches are yet to hold branch general meetings.
“The constitution of the ANC says there must be 50% of women in the structures of the ANC.
“Where you have more women as officials, it means women in those areas have been able to work hard … In the whole membership of the ANC, more than 60% are women.
“As long as we mobilise women and develop them…they have the power; it depends on us,” Dlamini said.
The league’s deputy secretary general, Weziwe Tikana, said: “We are here in the metro for the sole purpose of re-mobilising, galvanising of people to support the ANC.
“We will do that through visiting households, visiting members of the ANC, and convening branch meeting in all 60 wards.
“We are preparing our electioneering machinery. We, members of the ANC, have a responsibility to get people to vote for the ANC.”
The Women’s League held its national executive committee meeting at the weekend, and reflected on their programmes since the national electoral conference.
They also reflected on their programmes for the 16 Days of Activism against the violence and abuse of women and children, which ends on Thursday.
Dlamini said they wanted to focus on abuse prevention campaigns, by encouraging women to get out of abusive relationships at the first sign of abuse.
“We must make sense to women. On the first day that your partner insults you, you have to leave. If he slaps you, don’t wait for the second slap.
“It’s better to leave the money and look for a place where there is peace,” Dlamini said.
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