South Africa’s ANC Party Has Most Women in Top Posts Since 1994

South Africa’s governing party has elected three women to its seven top leadership posts for the first time since white-minority rule ended in 1994.

Former Environmental Affairs Minister Nomvula Mokonyane, 59, and African National Congress Women’s League coordinator Maropene Ramokgopa, 42, were voted in as first and second deputy secretary-generals respectively at the ANC’s elective conference on Monday. Women have held the position of deputy secretary-general since 1994, though the second post was only created earlier this year in an expansion to the number of top roles.