Amidst all the confusion over
whether SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng was indeed offered a woman as a present by
Venda leaders, one aspect was utterly unremarkable: that the ANC Women’s League
did not make a peep of protest. It’s the silence we’ve come to expect from a
League which seems to have a decidedly idiosyncratic approach to which issues
affecting SA women it chooses to make a noise about. But as a fascinating new
book on the League’s history explains, it’s a body which has been mired in
ideological contestation virtually from its inception. By REBECCA DAVIS. The Daily Maverick
