NATASHA MARRIAN: No chance of unity at national conference
It’s unlikely the ANC’s leadership and conference steering committee will set aside their factional differences
The ANC now appears to be completely incapable of resolving its internal differences. On Monday, a delegation of Eastern Cape leaders unhappy about the outcome of their provincial congress met party officials at national level to express concern about the way the conference was run. The conference — a bloody, chair-throwing event — resulted in the election of Oscar Mabuyane as party provincial chairman. On Thursday, the disgruntled group that won a court action in which the KwaZulu-Natal provincial conference was ruled to be illegal, again approached the high court. This time it was after the group sought the intervention of the national leadership for a solution to the court judgment, which set aside the election of chairman Sihle Zikalala and his leadership team. The national officials and national executive committee (NEC) took a factional approach — driven by President Jacob Zuma — to allow Zikalala’s provincial executive committee to appeal against the judgment. This resulted i...
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