ANC factions in KwaZulu-Natal expected an interim task team to be announced by secretary-general Ace Magashule on Monday, they said on Sunday. The ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) — its highest decision-making structure between conferences — resolved during its lekgotla to dissolve the provincial executive committees of KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State. The courts had declared the outcomes of the elective conferences that had elected the leadership structures in both provinces null and void. The NEC has decided to dissolve these and replace them with interim ones that will oversee the day-to-day running of party business in the two provinces until fresh and credible elective conferences are held. Mdumiseni Ntuli, spokesman for the dissolved provincial executive committee in KwaZulu-Natal, told Business Day on Sunday they were looking forward to the announcement of a new interim structure. "We welcome the ANC NEC decision and we hope that the new structure would be able to pr...

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