General
Source: SABC News
The 2015 ANC NGC made a few resolutions regarding the advancement of women in South Africa.
The three day congress of ANC members from all parts of South Africa took place at Gallagher Estate in Midrand.
The advancement of women in leadership positions was among the main issues discussed at the ANC NGC. A resolution was taken to have more women in leadership position at a branch level.
Building up to the 2015 ANC NGC, reports of the ANC Women's league touting African Union chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was in the media.
President Jacob Zuma on Saturday however said the delegates at the NGC did not discuss succession plans for the ANC.
The ANC Women's League said though they are ready for a female president, discussions about it is not part of the agenda at the 2015 NGC.
Land Ownership
Thoko Didiza says women's interests need to be protected as land ownership for women in rural areas is still linked to male figures in their lives. Didiza says women cannot continue to be treated as minors.
South African women still suffer the consequences of the apartheid government when women did not have the right to own land.
Though women can freely own land in a now democratic South Africa, communal land ownership for women remains a problem
The 2015 ANC NGC has resolved that more needs to be done to get women in communal land to own land.
Economic position of women
The ANC Women's league met ahead of the ANC NGC to conduct a workshop. Resolutions from the workshop will see ANC stalwart Frene Ginwala developing a "Women's Journal to research and improve the quality of information concerning women in the modern South Africa."
Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pandor says South Africa needs more women to become academics.