inside politics

Analysis of and commentary on South African politics.

Category: African National Congress Women’s League [ANCWL]

1 March 2026

Election 2026/7 [16] Can ASA win half the wards in Soweto?

Herman Mashaba says he believes ASA will win half the wards in Soweto outright. This analysis is designed to see what that would take in real terms, by isolating those wards that comprise Soweto, and comparing the results there between the 2016 and 2021 local elections, before determining what that all means for ASA’s potential.

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30 May 2012

Will the ANCWL back Jacob Zuma at Mangaung?

FEATURE: In 2007 and despite much public promising that it would seek to have a woman in the ANC presidency, the ANC woman’s league hypocritically capitulated and supported Jacob Zuma for president. So, what will it do this time round, at Mangaung? What follows is a retrospective, setting out what happened in 2007 and how, repeatedly, the ANCWL would come out on the wrong side of any debate that had at its heart the interests of women.