President Cyril Ramaphosa welcoming Dina Pule into his Cabinet as the Social Development minister.

The ANC Women's League (ANCWL) has come out to express its support for President Cyril Ramaphosa's appointment of its disgraced deputy secretary-general, Dina Pule, back into the Cabinet, 13 years after then-president Jacob Zuma fired her.

The league has been quiet for three days as criticism grew against its deputy secretary-general’s appointment as the new Social Development minister, replacing Sisisi Tolashe, whom Ramaphosa fired for perjury.

The league removed Tolashe as its president following allegations of improper hiring practices, falsification of qualifications, unauthorised extension of a former director-general's contract, and using departmental household assistants for personal labour.

Zuma dismissed Pule from her position as Communications minister in 2013 after then-Public Protector Thuli Madonsela found that she had persistently lied and acted unethically