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Winnie Mandela Helen Joseph Ray Alexander Lillian Ngoyi Dorothy Ngembe
Winnie Mandela Helen Joseph Ray Alexander Lillian Ngoyi Dorothy Nyembe

ANCWL – Happy Mother’s Day

10 May 2013

The African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) would like to wish all the mothers of South Africa a happy mother’s day this Sunday. Being a mother carries the utmost responsibility and we understand it can be the hardest job in the world to be responsible for the future of South Africa’s children.

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ANCWL Supports Education Minister Angie Motshekga

24 Apr 2013

The African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) is 100% behind our President in her role as Minister of Basic Education. She has time and again shown her dedication and determination to see the children of South Africa receive a decent education.

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Charlotte Maxeke Memorial Lecture by Mrs Angie Motshekga

19 Apr 2013

First and foremost, allow me to thank all of you warmly for accepting our cordial invitation. And, thanks to Wits University for allowing us here to converge.

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ANCWL Charlotte Maxeke Memorial Lecture

18 Apr 2013

The President of the ANC (African National Congress) Women’s League will tomorrow deliver a memorial lecture on the life and times of the founder of the Bantu Women’s League (predecessor to the ANCWL) and the women who organised and led the first ever women’s march in 1913, Charlotte Maxeke.

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Change of contact number

The contact details of Troy Martens the ANCWL Head of Communications have changed. Please use this number to contact her: 079 899 3070

The ANCWL are calling for:
  • An all out eradication of drugs in society.
  • Strict implementation of the liquor laws and closure of illegal taverns.
  • Better protection of our women, children and all vulnerable people in society from gender based violence, human trafficking and rape.
  • Justice to be easily accessible to all.
  • Harsher sentences for rapists, more especially child rapists.
  • Repeat rape offenders or serial rapists to get life imprisonment without the option of parole.
  • Better implementation of Protection orders related to domestic or gender based violence incidents.
  • Respect for the dignity of women when they go to report crimes of a sensitive nature.
  • Crimes of violence against women to be given priority in court and delays avoided at all costs.
  • Sensitive treatment of women who take the stand in court and testify against their accusers.
  • Partnerships with all in society in general to combat all factors that fuel rape and gender based violence.

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