In an about-turn‚ she also criticised the non-appointment of Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu‚ who had stood for the position of deputy president‚ although the league had not supported her bid when she first launched her campaign.
Instead‚ the league backed the inclusion of the new deputy president of the ANC‚ David Mabuza‚ on Dlamini-Zuma’s slate.
They also claimed that the only reason deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte emerged successful was because she had stood against another woman‚ Cosatu Second Deputy President‚ Zingiswa Losi.
“We want to say Comrade Jessie was able to make it because she stood with another woman‚ if she was standing with a male‚ she would have gone under the bus and we would have an all male top six‚” she said.
The league said it would fight the issue within the ANC‚ explaining that the party needed to make a decision on how women would be affirmed.
Dlamini also remarked that having Dlamini-Zuma as a presidential nominee on the ballot paper was monumental in itself.