The annual conference adopted a revised ANC constitution and the document Africans’ Claims in South Africa, articulating demands for citizenship, land, education and political rights. A later timeline also records a conference adoption in 1945; this batch follows the 1943 conference entry and flags the discrepancy in its research log. In 1943 the ANC also accepted women as full members and advanced formation of a Women’s League, a major change after decades of excluding women from formal membership. Sources identify that change by year but do not establish that it occurred on this conference date.
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What organisational change occurred in the ANC during 1943?
Women won full membership in 1943; the source does not assign that change to the 16 December conference date.
The sources establish that women gained full ANC membership specifically on 16 December 1943.
They record the change in 1943 but do not identify that exact day.