North West and Northern Cape ANC agree on plan to align local, national elections
The ANC in the North West and the Northern Cape are set to table a proposal for local and national elections to be aligned at a bilateral meeting on Monday. The talks between the two provinces, whose leadership are on opposing sides of the factional divide in the ANC’s succession race, formed part of a series of bilateral meetings between provinces ahead of the party’s elective conference in December. The Northern Cape is the only ANC province that has endorsed Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa to succeed President Jacob Zuma, while the North West leadership is backing NEC member Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. The provinces were silent on their discussions of the leadership question in a statement released on Monday, focusing rather on policy matters. "We also agreed that a proposal must be tabled to align local and national elections, in order to assist the ANC to combat deepening divisions and also to allow ANC election machinery to be used for only one election, which will impact positiv...
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