ANC s Ramaphosa praises Charlotte Maxeke s discipline, integrity ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa addressed an event at the Fort Hare University in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday to commemorate Maxeke’s 150th birthday. He used the platform to lambast indiscipline and corruption by some members of the ANC. ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa (left) with ANC Women s League president, Bathabile Dlamini (right) at a party event commemorating the 150th birthday of Charlotte Maxeke in eGqudesi in the Eastern Cape on 7 April 2021. Picture: @MYANC/Twitter
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DURBAN - African National Congress (ANC) president, Cyril Ramaphosa, called on party members to emulate the late renowned activist, Charlotte Maxeke, saying that she would never participate in factional battles within the party.
Ramaphosa says more needs to be done to achieve gender equity Ramaphosa said women had consistently shown that if given the opportunity, they could play an important role in the country’s development. President Cyril Ramaphosa and ANCWL president Bathabile Dlamini in eGqudesi, Eastern Cape, on 7 March 2021 to celebrating 150 years of Charlotte Maxeke. Picture: @MYANC/Twitter.
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DURBAN - President Cyril Ramaphosa has used the 150th birthday celebration of the late Charlotte Maxeke to highlight issues that need to be addressed so the country can achieve gender equity.
Maxeke is renowned for being the first black woman to graduate with a university degree in the country as well as being one of the founders of the Bantu Women’s League, which later became the African National Congress Women’s League.
President Cyril Ramaphosa arriving in Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape ahead of the 150th birthday celebrations of Charlotte Mannya Maxeke in Eastern Cape. Pictures: Lubabalo Ngcukana/City Press
In commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of liberation struggle heroine and human rights campaigner Charlotte Maxeke, who was born in Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, on April 7 1871 (although some sources say she was born in Botlokwa, outside Polokwane), President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday proposed that a college be built in her hometown.
Ramaphosa said it was only fitting that Maxeke, who, after graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree from Wilberforce University, Ohio, US, in 1901, becoming the first indigenous South African woman to attain a university degree, should have a college named after her.
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