ON Women’s Day on Monday, 9 August, female personalities shared messages of encouragement with other women, including Cici, Basetsana Khumalo, Shudufhadzo Musida, Nambotha Ben-Mazwi and Linda Mtoba.
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.
King Phalo was a paramount chief of the Xhosa nation.
Mthethwa added: The ministry and the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture are charged with the responsibility of coordination and observation of national days by the republic. The Human Rights Day being one of those days. Critically related to the assignments stated above, is that issue of nation building and social cohesion.
READ | The governing party, the African National Congress, has been seized with the matter right from its inception. When we observe such days as Human Rights Day and Human Rights Month we are continuing with efforts of nation building and social cohesion.
ANC MP Tozama Mantashe has died of Covid-19 complications.
She is the sister of Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe.
The ANC has hailed Mantashe as a fiery gender activist.
Yet another lawmaker has succumbed to Covid-19.
ANC MP Tozama Mantashe, the sister of ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe, died on Sunday due to Covid-19 complications.
Tozama Mantashe is the 13
th MP to have died of the virus.
In a statement on Monday, ANC chief whip Pemmy Majodina said Mantashe was hospitalised for a few weeks. At the time of her demise, Comrade Tozama Mantashe had served in both the fifth and sixth Parliament and was assigned to serve on the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry during the sixth Parliament as well as the National Assembly Rules Committee and Joint Rules Committee, she said.