Former ANC Women’s League leader Bathabile Dlamini has been cleared to run for the upcoming elections. Image: Twitter/@MYANC
Bathabile Dlamini cleared to run for ANC Women’s league elections
Former ANC Women’s League leader Bathabile Dlamini has been cleared to run for the upcoming Women’s League elections.
Former ANC Women’s League leader Bathabile Dlamini has been cleared to run for the upcoming elections. Image: Twitter/@MYANC
Former ANC Women’s League leader Bathabile Dlamini has been cleared to run for the upcoming re-elections.
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Women’s League to elect new leader
The ANC Women’s League is expected to finally sit for its elective conference next month at which its former president Bathabile Dlamini will be seeking re-election.
Dlamini is expected to go against Sisisi Tolashe for the top post, while Tina Joemat-Peterson is being lobbied to run for the deputy president position.
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The leadership of the women’s league national task team said Dlamini had been cleared to run for any leadership position at the conference on Thursday.
The league’s co-ordinator, Maropene Ramokgopa, and its fundraiser Pinky Kekana said Bathabile, who was last year elected on to the coveted ANC national executive committee (NEC), had every right to contest.
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Bathabile Dlamini SASSA grant scandal
In 2017, Dlamini was found guilty of perjury after having been found to have lied in her testimony during an inquiry into her role in the 2017 social grants scandal.
Her conviction was subject of a lot of drama in the lead-up to the 55th ANC national conference last year, where she was initially disqualified from contesting according to the party’s “step aside” resolution.
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However, Dlamini contested that decision and she was elected on to the NEC.
“Comrade Bathabile, like any other member of the ANC, has every right to participate in structures of the ANC. And we’re not isolating her because any member of the ANC may be found in that situation,” said Kekana.
Branches will get just under a month to discuss policy and nominate their preferred candidates.
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