BRANCH CANDIDATES
NATASHA MARRIAN: Collapse of ANC vote looms ever larger
A collapse of the ANC’s elective conference in December will be the final nail in the party’s political coffin
The ANC special national executive committee (NEC) meeting at the weekend was instructive. It provided evidence for what has been written about in these pages since July 2017: that the party’s national elective conference in December is at risk of being collapsed. With exactly four weeks to go before that conference, the potential for this remains a clear and present danger. At the weekend, the NEC received a report from the national working committee on the Eastern Cape elective conference, which had resulted in Oscar Mabuyane, former secretary and supporter of Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, being elected as provincial chairman. At the weekend meeting, the faction aligned to President Jacob Zuma and his allies pushed for Mabuyane’s leadership to be dissolved or declared null and void by the ANC’s highest decision-making body between conferences, the NEC. So desperate has this faction become that it was peddling its wish lists far and wide to be picked up by journalists, who were...
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