The ANC as a liberation movement and a governing party today has a long history and progressive tradition of fighting for the eradication of patriarchy, the establishment of a democratic, nonracial and nonsexist society based on the principles of promoting gender equality. Its historical commitment, values and principles of promoting gender equality and building a nonsexist society has had an enormous influence and impact on the Constitution and on the laws pertaining to the promotion of women's rights in the postapartheid system of governance.