The upcoming ANC national policy conference has torn provincial structures in KwaZulu-Natal down the middle. The conference is scheduled to take place in Gauteng from June 30 to July 5 and will review ANC policy and make recommendations to the national elective conference to take place in December 2017. The party in the province has been plagued by factions since the November 2015 provincial conference in which a slate headed by current chairman Sihle Zikalala defeated the group led by former KwaZulu-Natal premier Senzo Mchunu. After the conference, thousands of Mchunu’s supporters marched to the ANC provincial headquarters to demand that the result of the election be nullified, saying the results had been cooked. The marchers also alleged that ineligible delegates were allowed into the conference venue to vote. Mchunu was replaced as the premier by the ANC provincial executive committee a few months after this conference and his place was taken by provincial deputy chairman Willies...
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