It is unacceptable that only one woman has been appointed as a premier in the ANC-run provinces this year, party deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte said on Tuesday.

"It is a strange outcome which is not an acceptable one," she told reporters in Johannesburg.

"I would like to call it a political structural fault line... The fault is with us, and the fault is that we need to deal with the transversal reality of the structure of the ANC at provincial level and...read more here: Only one female premier not enough: Duarte