The legitimacy of the ANC’s Eastern Cape conference came into sharp focus at a special national executive committee (NEC) meeting at the weekend and dominated discussion late into Sunday afternoon. The meeting was held to finalise preparations for the ANC’s December conference, but by late Sunday, the party’s top brass had not moved past the first item on the agenda — a national working committee report that included the Eastern Cape issue. President Jacob Zuma has a lot of support in the NEC, which is packed with his allies. The key meeting was meant to finalise preparations for the December conference and also deal with disputes in other areas, including KwaZulu-Natal. There are serious concerns among investors and the business community, as well as ANC veterans and ordinary party members, about the possibility of the December conference being delayed or collapsing. The fight over the national working committee report at the NEC was a further indication of the high levels of tensi...
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