ANC eThekwini regional conference

Political stakes were high in Durban as the ANC's biggest region in the country – eThekwini – was set to today choose whether the.

The SACP, which is one of the governing party’s key allies, is even contemplating fighting the next election independent of the ANC as it believes its ally faces uncertain future electoral prospects because of the factional battles and decay. This state of the governing party is better captured – as reported elsewhere in this paper today – by the SA Communist Party (SACP), which has bemoaned the moral and political decay within the ANC. It is against the backdrop of events such as the eThekwini conference that the SACP believes that prospects of an ANC renewal do not look promising. A potential victory for Gumede will pose a huge problem for the party’s Ramaphosa-led renewal campaign, which seeks to project the ANC as a party serious about change and ridding itself of crooked elements in its leadership structures as well as among its rank and file.

A day after the eThekwini ANC's regional conference began delegates are yet to nominate leaders for election after disagreement on procedural matters.

“We go in again [this morning]. We will try to persuade comrades because we can’t change the decision of the PEC, a regional conference does not have that mandate. So we have been following a clear trend that our understanding is that the task team of the ANC does not have a voting status,” said Mshengu. Precedence cited by those who argued for the RTT to be given voting status included provinces like Mpumalanga where the task team have been allowed to vote.

ANC KZN chairperson Sihle Zikalala has urged Ethekwini ANC members to use the regional conference as a space to pay attention to the state of the ...

We must not be apologetic and be fearful to confront wrong tendencies in the organisation. "It is important for the ANC in this region to pay serious attention to the state of the organisation. The second task of the conference is to discuss the programme of action for the next intervening period.

KwaZulu-Natal ANC leader Sihle Zikalala berated delegates at the party's eThekwini conference on Saturday for putting factional interests ahead of the ...

“It's because factionalism has prevailed. He said it was because of factionalism that the Gumede faction was not at the venue at 10am when the conference was supposed to start. KwaZulu-Natal ANC leader Sihle Zikalala berated delegates at the party's eThekwini conference on Saturday for putting factional interests ahead of the future of the ANC.

After hours of debate over the passing of credentials, the ANC eThekwini conference has adjourned with delegates expected to continue arguing over the issue ...

Last week Mpumalanga party members did not flinch when electing Mandla Msibi as the provincial treasurer, in spite of the murder charges that he still needs to answer to. The dispute has put into sharp focus the governing party’s controversial step-aside rule, which so far has been sold to the public as part of its renewal programme. The gathering had to be adjourned as the members differed over the voting status of the regional task team - an interim leadership structure.

DURBAN - After hours of discussions and debates about delegates credentials, the ANC eThekwini regional conference finally got to the process of nominating ...

- KZN ANC confident eThekwini conference will be concluded However, the matters were finally resolved to allow the nomination process to go ahead. DURBAN - After hours of discussions and debates about delegates credentials, the ANC eThekwini regional conference finally got to the process of nominating candidates for office-bearers on Sunday afternoon.

Former eThekwini mayor, Zandile Gumede, was set to contest against the current council speaker, Thabani Nyawose, for the eThekwini regional chairperson position ...

According to the agreement between the ANC and the owners of the conference venue, the gathering should end at 7pm on Sunday. The conference, which officially kicked off in Durban on Saturday, was on Sunday in limbo after delegates could not agree on whether the ANC Women’s League (ANCWL) and the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) should have voting rights at the gathering. The convener of the ANC eThekwini regional task team (RTT), Kwazi Mshengu, confirmed that the ANC provincial executive committee (PEC) had resolved that the leagues should not have any voting rights at the conference.

A dispute has arisen at the African National Congress' (ANC) eThekwini regional conference as to whether members of the regional task team should be allowed ...

Ultimately, it must be the people of this region who are to benefit from the conference so we can’t allow it to collapse. The two slates are led by former mayor Zandile Gumede and Thabani Nyawose. In a closely contested leadership race, representatives of the two slates monitored the verification of each delegate to establish if they are allowed to vote.

On the first day on Saturday, the event started very late as two main factions, that of former mayor Zandile Gumede and council speaker Thabani Nyawose locked ...

Some delegates argued that a precedent was set during the Mpumalanga conference, where provincial task teams members voted. “There is Mpumalanga for instance where task teams were allowed to vote…but there is no national decision that says task teams should or should not vote.” The last provincial conference, said Mshengu, was led by a task team headed by Mike Mabuyakhulu, and the task team members did not vote.

RTT members should be allowed to vote, something “that is unheard of in the ANC” insist opponents of the Zandile Gumede faction.

In all the other conferences in KZN, none of the RTT were allowed to vote, so it was going to be the first one where they are allowed to vote. “They raised a motion that the RTT be allowed to vote because know that they are a majority in it since three of our members are out because of step aside. According to Ntando Khuzwauo who speaks for the Zandile Gumede faction, the dipsute is over allowing RTT members to vote.

But the corruption-accused former mayor was not allowed to attend the elective meeting.

Its leadership was dissolved in 2019 over the collapse of services in the eThekwini municipality and it was replaced with the regional task team, made up of members of both factions. Gumede was redeployed to the KwaZulu-Natal legislature as an ANC MPL. The dispute over the regional task team had threatened to halt the conference and was only ended when delegates from the Nyawose grouping agreed that the team would not vote.

The conference is part of the build-up to the party's national elective conference in December.

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Madlala got 211 votes against Sabelo’s 179. Nciki obtained 217 while Ntuli mustered 174 votes. Ntuli got 215 votes while Dlamini mustered 174 votes.