Moves afoot by local ANC leaders to rein Sylvia Lucas in
Luthuli House condemns ‘abuse of office’ by premier as Zuma-Ramaphosa factions square off
Branches of the ANC in the Northern Cape may push for the recall of Premier Sylvia Lucas, or for disciplinary action after she reshuffled her cabinet on the eve of the party’s elective conference without consulting the party. On Thursday, the ANC’s national office took a hard line against Lucas, with Luthuli House describing the move as a "flagrant abuse of office". The run-up to the Northern Cape conference, among the ANC’s smallest voting blocs at its national elective conference in December, signals a fraught internal elective season for the party, which will choose a successor to President Jacob Zuma at the end of 2017. The provincial conference was postponed twice due to complaints about the nomination process for leaders at branch level. Despite interventions from the national leadership to deal with the complaints, members travelled from Kimberley to Johannesburg on the eve of the conference in a bid to halt it. Lucas’s reshuffle was described by insiders as an attempt by the...
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