ANC Women's League
*ANC Women's League media briefing, 27 November 2012*** *NEC and Nominations*The ANC Women's League held a fruitful two day meeting. Yesterday the NEC met at the St George hotel and agreed on a number of issues.
*Policy*We understand that the upcoming 53rd National ANC conference has generated much excitement around leadership. As the ANC Women's League, we remain committed to parity in the entire structure, unity, continuity and change. However the policy positions are even more important as we want this to be a watershed conference. We have focused much of our attention as the Women's League on our policy positions. As you should know, the Women's League sponsored a gender paper during the ANC policy conference in June 2012, and subsequently we have been working through our policy sub-committee led by the President and we are developing our gender resolutions to be considered by all policy committees at conference. We have also highlighted our children as a priority area for policy development and the socialization and development of our children in society.
We understand that the most important developmental phase of our children is from the cradle, long before they start school. As a result we believe that more focus needs to be put on early childhood development and that we need to further strengthen Early Childhood Development programmes. We need to embrace the vision that Nelson Mandela advocated that our children are the future and we should invest heavily in them. One of the topical policy positions that the league is advocating is that of economic transformation and women inclusion, through entrepreneurships and SMMEs. We are closely monitoring access and challenges to development finance, especially for women. Women remain the face of poverty, inequality and unemployment.
*Nominations*The nominations took place after due process. All provinces, as per guidelines, held Regional General Councils and they were further consolidated through provincial nomination conferences, which all our provinces did. We can report that this was a seamless process and all these conferences were conducted freely and fairly. Yesterday we were at St George Hotel where we held our national nomination conference. We can proudly report that while the ANC has a 50% gender parity policy, our list in its entirety has 61% gender representation.
Our women would like to make the following nominations for the 53rdNational Conference of the ANC:
* *_President_:* Jacob Zuma
* *_Deputy President_:* Cyril Ramaphosa
* *_Secretary General_:* Gwede Mantashe
* *_Deputy Secretary General_: *Jessie Duarte
* *_Chairperson_:* Baleka Mbete
* *_Treasurer General_:* Zweli Mkhize
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Additional members: (list, not attached)/
Sizodibana eMangaung!
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**See the remainder of this statement at:
http://www.anc.org.za/wl/show.php?id=9965 **
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