At a media briefing on Tuesday, 23 April DA leader Mmusi Maimane defended the party’s lack of gender representation within its provincial premier list. Despite only two women making the cut, Maimane argued that DA candidates are chosen based primarily on merit.I’m comfortable with the diversity of the list,” said Maimane. “Ideally I would want more women, but I’m not going to set a quota for women because I don’t believe in quotas.
But according to Dr Sithembile Mbete, lecturer in the Politics Department at the University of Pretoria, quotas can have some positive effects.In a patriarchal society such as South Africa quotas can be one of the only ways to ensure representation,” Mbete told. But, like Gouws, she worries that women who feel they are only represented because they are a quota feel they have to be deferential to men.
The EFF, for example, has a diverse gender breakdown within their top 25 candidates – 44% – being women but only one of their top five candidates is a woman, leaving the roles of president and vice-president to men.
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