ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe says he is bullish about the party’s elective conference in December, saying it would neither collapse nor result in a split. Fears abound that the highly contested battle could collapse or, worse, not sit at all. There are already court cases in four provinces that could have an effect on the gathering, in which Cyril Ramaphosa will square off against Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and others for the coveted post of ANC president. Collapse concerns Two national executive committee (NEC) members, one backing Ramaphosa, raised concern about the potential for collapse. One of the members said the Eastern Cape gathering in September — at which delegates threw chairs at one another, leaving scores injured — could possibly play out at national level in December. Campaigners for Dlamini-Zuma also told Business Day there was the potential for collapse and further litigation should the conference not go the way certain groups hoped for. But Mantashe described th...
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