Succession rules may change, says Cyril Ramaphosa
The deputy president is mum on taking part in the leadership race as it emerges the ANC’s June policy conference will address elections
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday indicated the ANC’s rules for choosing leaders were likely to be changed at the party’s policy conference in June in the wake of an increasingly debilitating leadership contest in which he is intimately involved. Ramaphosa’s comments underline concern in the ANC that its leadership race — which until now it has tried to stifle by decree — is likely to overwhelm the government’s policy and implementation agenda. The ANC has largely been resistant to changes to its elective process, often arguing that any changes would dilute the power of its branches and in turn erode internal democracy in the party. However, it has repeatedly admitted that vote buying, ghost members and branches, and the manipulation of the process by factions were rife. Ramaphosa is set to come up against outgoing African Union Commission chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma for the presidency of the governing party when the ANC holds its elective conference in December 201...
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