POLITICAL WEEK AHEAD: ANC leadership race gets ready for final showdown
It is the final stretch to the ANC’s 54th national elective conference, which starts in Nasrec, Soweto, on Saturday. The conference is set to be the final showdown in the battle between Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma for the party’s top position. Voting for the president of the ANC will start on Sunday, the second day of the event. The ANC has been ironing out some last-minute issues.
Branches that had been allowed to rerun their general meetings were given until Saturday to do so. These include 29 general meetings in four Free State regions. The High Court in Bloemfontein had ordered reruns of the 29 branch general meetings after ANC members raised issues. The Free State’s twice-delayed provincial elective conference got under way on Sunday and was expected to conclude on Monday. The ANC members who had initially interdicted the conference said they would approach the high court again if the event went ahead. The group has sent a lawyer’s letter o...
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