DUARTE LAMBASTES ANC OVER SINGLE FEMALE PREMIER Cde JD is definitely not impressed....but provided way forward ------------------------------ It is unacceptable that only one woman has been appointed as a premier in the ANC-run provinces this year, party deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte said on Tuesday. It is a strange outcome which is not an acceptable one, she told reporters in Johannesburg. I would like to call it “A POLITICAL STRUCTURAL FAULT LINE”... The fault is with us, and the fault is that we need to deal with the transversal reality of the structure of the ANC at provincial level and make sure parity means exactly that. The ANC had gender parity at national level, but not at provincial. Duarte said this was not because there were no capable women leaders in the party. We have capable women in this country who dont need grooming to lead --------------------------------------------------------- NO MAN IS EVER GROOMED TO LEAD ANYBODY, THEY ASSUME LEADERSHIP IS THEIR GOD-GIVEN BIRTHRIGHT. ITS WRONG. WOMEN CAN LEAD AS CAPABLY AND OFTEN MORE CAPABLY THAN MEN LEAD. --------------------------------------------------------- The ANC held a special national executive committee (NEC) meeting in Pretoria on Monday where it decided on its premiers. We [the NEC] were really concerned with the male domination of nominations and... we agreed that going forward to the next national general council of the ANC we might have to review the nomination regulations and fine-tune them to ensure the selection process has outcomes which guarantee our policy of gender parity. She said the NEC decided where there was a male premier there had to be a female speaker, and the provincial executive committee had to be 60% women. -------------------------------------------------- Lack of women ANC treasurer general Zweli Mkhize echoed Duartes sentiments about the lack of women premiers and denied this was because of a lack of female leadership in the party. As you are aware a number of leaders... are women and the ANC has many of them in various structures. -------------------------------------------------- Concerns over Gauteng Duarte said during Mondays NEC meeting stability in the provinces was discussed, as a local government election was 18 months away. WE NEEDED TO BE SURE THAT WE PUT IN PLACE PEOPLE THAT CAN CARRY THE BURDEN OF MANAGING BOTH AN ELECTION AS WELL AS SERVICE DELIVERY AT A HIGHER LEVEL THAN EVER BEFORE, SO THAT WE CAPTURE BACK THE SPACE WE MAY HAVE RESCINDED IN THE NATIONAL ELECTIONS. -------------------------------------------------- This was especially true for Gauteng. The ANCs support in Gauteng, the countrys economic heartland, decreased from 64.04% in 2009 to 53.59%, the partys worst provincial performance in 2014. Frankly speaking we didnt do very well and the ANC is very concerned about this province. We want to put it right out there, its not a secret. We are concerned, she said. The ANC in Gauteng welcomed Makhuras appointment. We are confident that David Makhura will lead Gauteng province with decisiveness and sound principles, and continue to make it a better place to live, work, and play in, it said. -------------------------------------------------- Comrades.....what is your view..... 1. Has the ANC failed Women Leadership? 2. Should the ANCWL have done enough to lobby for the women to lead? 3. Is the decision(s) justified? 4. We understand...they had no choice
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