African National Congress Women's League

The African National Congress Women's League ( short ANC Women's League or ANCWL, German about: Women's League of the African National Congress ) is a subsidiary organization of the South African ruling African National Congress ( ANC).

History

1931, the Bantu Women's League was founded ( German about: Women's League of blacks ). First president was Charlotte Maxeke. Integration into the ANC took place from 1943, when women were admitted as ANC members for the first time until 1948, when the African National Congress Women's League was officially founded. First chairman of the ANCWL was Madie Beatrice Hall Xuma, which was replaced by Ida Mntwane 1948. The ANCWL took in 1952 at the Defiance Campaign ( about: disregard campaign ) and four years later in the protests of August 9, 1956 against the pass laws in part. The then - chairman ANCWL Lilian Ngoyi was one of the leaders of the protest train. Ngoyi was recorded as the first woman in the Executive Committee of the ANC in the same year.

Other well-known activists of the African National Congress Women's League were Frances Baard, Rahima Moosa and Dorothy Nyembe. While the ban on the ANC from 1960 to 1990 was founded in exile in Tanzania, the ANC Women Section. Its chairman was Gertrude Shope, who was elected in 1991 at the first conference on South African soil after the lifting of the ban in Kimberley as Chairman of the ANCWL. It was replaced by Winnie Madikizela - Mandela in 1993, the longtime wife of Nelson Mandela. Madizikela Mandela is still chairman of the league.

Ahead of South Africa's first free elections in 1994, the ANCWL took part in the negotiations on the new constitution. In 1996, she was instrumental in the passage of the Choice of Termination of Pregnancy Act (Act for enabling abortions ) and the Domestic Violence Act ( Domestic Violence Act ). In 2003, the ANCWL was a new statute. Occasionally, the ANCWL expresses rape and other crimes against women.