Bathabile Dlamini resists calls to step aside as ANC Women’s League president - The ANC women's league heard calls for it to be disbanded and for Bathabile Dlamini to step aside during its national working committee meeting last week.
was fiercely rejected by her allies in the structure during a national working committee meeting on Friday.
Dlamini is facing a charge of perjury having been accused of having lied under oath while giving testimony during an inquiry instituted by the in 2018 to investigate the social grant payments scandal involving the South African Social Security Agency. Retired Judge Bernard Ngoepe presided over this inquiry. The case against her will continue in March.Subscribe to the M&G today for just R30 for the first three months* to gain access to this story and all our best journalism, subscriber-only newsletters, events and a weekly cryptic crossword.