Durban - Preparation for the ANC’s eThekwini regional conference has gone back to square one, with branches to hold branch general meetings in preparation for the rerun at the end of next month.
The ruling party had to start again after the previous conference held last month, and won by city Mayor James Nxumalo, was declared invalid.
Mthunzi Dlamini, the secretary of the disbanded regional structure, said 11 branches would hold meetings to get the required numbers of branches to participate in the conference.
Dlamini said he and his team had left the office, but he was confident that, come the end of April, they would be back.
“We had already started to work, and when we come back we will continue. There is nothing difficult with our work because we have experience from being members of the ANC,” he said.
Facebook users had posted that Nxumalo had pulled out of the race for the rerunning of the conference. The Mercury’s sister weekly publication the Sunday Tribune reported that there was speculation that other members of Nxumalo’s team had also decided not to take part.
However, Dlamini said that was all “propaganda”.
“We are all available,” he said.
“It is all about numbers (of voters). It is obvious that the numbers are on our side.”
Dlamini said the new conference would take place at the end of April, although the exact date would be determined by the preparation process at branch level.
The Mercury