Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
South Africa Parties
Also see South Africa Ministers
Ca. 1961 Chairperson of the Labour Party J. McPherson
1953-54 President of the Liberal Party V. Margaret Ballinger
1970-89 Parliamentary leader of the Progressive Party Helen Suzman
MP 1953-89 and an outspoken opponent of the Apartheid Regime, and lived
(1917-2009).
1988-92 President of United Democratic Front Albertine Sisuli
1994-98 Deputy Chief Whip
of ANC in the National Assembly Naledi Pandor
Permanent Deputy Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces 1998-99 and
Chairperson 1999-2004. (b. 1954-)
1994-99 Chief Whip of
Pan Africanist Congress (PAC)
Patricia de Lille
2003- Leader of the Independent Democrats
1995-98 Deputy Secretary General of African National Congress, ANC Cheryl
Karolus
1997-98 Acting Secretary General
From 1998 Ambassador to United Kingdom.
1995-96
Chairperson of the (ANC) Parliamentary
caucus Baleka Mbete
2007- National Chairperson
Deputy Speaker
of the National Assembly
1996-2004 and 2004-08. Deputy State President 2008-09.
1998-2007 Deputy Secretary General of African National Congress, ANC Thenjiwe Mtintso
1999- Chief Whip in the National Assembly of
the Pan African Congress, PAC
2004- Whip of the ANC Mietha Patricia Coetzee-Kasper
There are a substantial number of Parliamentary ANC Whips, including many women.
1999-2004 Whip of the National Assembly of InKartha Freedom Party, IFP Sybil
A.
Seaton
2004- Deputy Chief Whip
2005- Chairperson of the Inkatha Freedom Party Zanele Magwaza
2007- Leader of the Democratic Alliance and Opposition Leader Helen Zille Mayor of Cape Town from 2006 and Premier of Western Cape from 2009. (b. 1951-).
2007-09 Leader of the Parliamentary Caucus of Democratic Alliance and
Parliamentary Leader of
the Opposition in the National Assembly Sandra Botha
Candidate for the post of Speaker in 2008.
2007- Deputy Secretary General of African National Congress, ANC Thandi Modise
2009- Chief Whip of the ANC in the National Council of
Provinces Nosipho Dorothy Ntwanambi
2009 Designate Chairperson of ANC Parliamentary Caucus Nozizwe
Madlala-Routledge
Deputy Minister of Defence 1999-2004 and Deputy Minister of Health 2004-07 until
she was fired by the president because of her opposition to the Minister of
Health, who thought nutrition can replace treatment with anti-retroviral drugs
against aids. Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly in 2008-09, and was
appointed ANC Caucus Chair but decided not to take up her seat in parliament.
2009- Chairperson of the ANC Parliamentary Caucus Mildred N. Oliphant
Assistant Speaker of the National Council of Provinces, 2004-04 and originally Designated to become Deputy Speaker of the NCOP in 2009.
Last update 05.05.09