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ANC MP Thaba Mufamadi says local capital needs to be used to drive infrastructure. Photo: Phill Magakoe
ANC branches will start nominating candidates for all the party's national executive committee positions in October ahead of its elective conference later this year, the party said on Thursday.
Only members in “good standing” would be able to nominate candidates, ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu said in a statement.
The ANC is holding its national conference in Mangaung in December, when it will elect those who will lead the party for the next four years.
The ANC Youth League is pushing for a change of leadership at the event. Its embattled president Julius Malema is reportedly leading a campaign to unseat President Jacob Zuma in favour of his deputy Kgalema Motlanthe.
Malema's predecessor Fikile Mbalula, who is now sports minister, is the ANCYL's preferred candidate to take over from Gwede Mantashe as ANC secretary general.
Mthembu said the cut-off date for ANC members and branches to qualify to attend the conference was the end of May.
“From May to August, the national office of the ANC will conduct audit of all branches to verify and confirm their status and membership and also determine how many delegates each branch will have,” he said.
The ANCYL, ANC Women's League and the ANC Veterans' League had been assigned the number of delegates they could send to the conference. – Sapa
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freddy maswanganyi, wrote
IT IS RELIEVING TO HEAR THE DATE SET. MINISTERS CAN STILL FOCUS ON THEIR WORK. I GUESS AFTER OCTOBER, IT WILL DOG EAT DOG.
louis, wrote
this is going to be good. Comrades watch your backs the knives will be out. Conspiracies, vested interests, the shower head and the bottle (or champagne glass) what a session of real TV politics. The politicians in this Country are lucky that there is no KGB and the Gulags or what is happening in China for the loosers
Joel, wrote
If the nominations are only going to be held in October, there is obviously nothing wrong with ANC members discussing their preferred candidates well in advance. It cannot be that ANC members cannot discuss their preferred candidates until October and in that case who are they going to nominate? We hope this is not just an opportunity to identify those who are opposed to the current ANC leadership and then disqualify them as delegates to the next ANC National Conference. This is exactly what happens in KwaZulu-Natal ensuring Zuma 90% of delegates.
naked eyes, wrote
Plz comrades could you'l nominate Lindiwe Mazibuko, Hellen Zille, Dr MG Buthelezi, Cyril Ramaphosa, Prof. Pitika Ntuli, Trevor Ngwane. If this does not go down well please go to the local creche and nominate a child from there I am sure anyone other than the present buffoons in the ANC will do a better job
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