There are six days to go before
the much anticipated 54th ANC elective conference at Nasrec Expo Centre.
Nasrec is located behind
Joburg’s mega venue, the FNB
Stadium, and is close to parts of
Soweto, including Diepkloof and
Orlando and the suburbs of Ridgeway
and Mondeor.
More than 6 000 people, including
ANC delegates, the media,
interested parties and various
service providers are expected to
gather at the elective conference
that will start on Saturday.
The front-runners for the ANC's top job are Deputy
President Cyril Ramaphosa
and Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma.
After the nominations were
tallied this week, Ramaphosa
had been nominated by five
provinces – Gauteng, Limpopo,
Northern Cape, Western Cape
and Eastern Cape.
KwaZuluNatal,
North West, Free State
and Mpumalanga preferred
Dlamini Zuma as the new
leader.
How voting at the ANC conference works:
At the ANC elective conference delegates vote for the top six positions as well as for the 80 addtional elected members of the National Executive Committee.
5240 delegates will be voting on Saturday, of which 90% consists of branch delegates while the remaining 10% is made up of the women’s, youth and veterans' leagues, representatives from each provincial executive committee and the National Executive Committee.
Each branch is allowed one delegate per hundred members. So branches with bigger memberships can send more than one delegate.
KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and the Eastern Cape have the highest numbers of delegates.
PECs will be allowed 27 delegates per province while each league gets 60.
Delegates are meant to vote with the mandate they received from their branches, even if it differs from their province's preferred candidate.
After all the votes are in, counting will begin under the eyes of party observers and Independent Electoral Commission officials, while the rest of the conference continues debating and adopting the policies proposed at the party’s policy conference six months ago.
The results will be announced once counting is completed, including of the top six and the rest of the National Executive Committee.