Choosing leaders through US-style primaries will help ANC, Zamani Saul says
The new ANC chair in the Northern Cape says the ANC needs to ‘reinvigorate’ itself as it prepares to elect a successor to President Jacob Zuma
The ANC must modernise by allowing open campaigning and US-style primaries to choose its leaders or it will suffer at the polls, the new chairperson of the party in the Northern Cape said. Zamani Saul said the ANC needed to reinvigorate itself as it prepared to elect a successor to President Jacob Zuma, when he steps down as the party leader in December. A supporter of Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, Saul was elected the party provincial chairman on May 12 after Sylvia Lucas, the premier of Northern Cape and Zuma ally, dropped out of the race. Ramaphosa’s main rival is Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the President’s former wife and former head of the African Union Commission. "We can’t continue to fossilise the movement," Saul said in an interview in Colesberg. "The ANC has to go through a thorough process of modernisation." When he appeared at the party conference that elected Saul, Ramaphosa drew an enthusiastic reception, with many of the 700 people in the audience singing and making r...
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