The ANC is in disarray with just three weeks to go until its elective conference
Court challenges, allegations of vote rigging and outbreaks of violence — the ANC is in disarray less than three weeks before it’s scheduled to choose a new leader to replace President Jacob Zuma. The struggle for power has spawned such disorder that some analysts question whether the ANC can hold a credible election at the December 16 to 20 conference in Johannesburg in what’s shaping up to be the most hotly contested internal vote since Nelson Mandela led the party to power in 1994. Leadership disputes have ended up in court in three of the nine provinces — KwaZulu-Natal, the Free State and North West — while the party’s national officials stepped in to avert a lawsuit challenging the outcome of its internal election in the Eastern Cape province.
"If all these legal disputes are not sorted out by the time the conference takes place, they will be transferred to the conference itself," said Mpumelelo Mkhabela, a political analyst at the University of Pretoria’s Centre for the ...
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