ELECTIVE CONFERENCE
Attempt to halt ANC meeting falls flat
The Northern Cape elective conference is likely to set the tone for the ANC’s succession race
Disgruntled ANC members failed in their last-minute attempt on Tuesday to halt the party’s Northern Cape elective conference. The conference is likely to set the tone for the ANC’s succession race. Like all the provincial elective conferences, Wednesday’s conference might as well be a dress rehearsal for the party’s national conference in December, when a new president will be elected. Those contesting to become provincial chairpersons are backing the different national leaders jostling to succeed party president Jacob Zuma. The conference will pit provincial secretary Zamani Saul against Premier Sylvia Lucas for the chairperson’s position. It will also lift the lid on the thinking in ANC structures about the future leadership of the party. Saul is said to be aligned to Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, while Lucas, a Zuma ally, is said to be backing Ramaphosa’s main rival, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. The Northern Cape represents only a tiny voting bloc at the party’s national conferenc...
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