Nasrec

Despite changes to the voting process this year, ANC conferences are fairly predictable in how they are run, if not always in their outcomes.

As to who will deliver this closing address is one of the hottest topics of discussion in ANC WhatsApp groups across the country. Monday will mostly be characterised by closed sessions to adopt the finalised reports on organisational renewal, constitutional amendments, and resolutions on policy matters. In the closed sessions that follow, reports on the strategy and tactics, organisational renewal, and elections will be presented to the plenary, before delegates break up into commissions to discuss policy issues. Voting for the NEC will continue overnight. Party secretary-general Ace Magashule, for one, has been suspended from his position as a result of this rule, and he has been lobbying hard to make a comeback. They will possibly sing songs in support of their chosen leadership candidates, campaigning and testing the strength of the support from the floor.

Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma at the ANC national conference in Polokwane in 2007. PHOTO: Gallo Images. In the same way, that policy discussions were furthest from ...

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President Cyril Ramaphosa enters the final lap in his journey towards a second term as ANC head like a wounded buffalo.

For the next few days, many South Africans will be fixated on the national conference of the ANC in Johannesburg. This is where the governing party will ...

It was not always like this. Beyond the next few days, at least for the foreseeable future, the fate of our country is in the hands of the delegates at Nasrec. For the next few days, many South Africans will be fixated on the national conference of the ANC in Johannesburg.

ANC Leaders say they are hopeful that the 55th National Conference will foster unity within the party. This as the national conference of the ANC is ...

This as the national conference of the ANC is expected to kick off in Nasrec in the south of Johannesburg today. The conference takes place amid growing turbulence at the party. ANC Leaders say they are hopeful that the 55th National Conference will foster unity within the party.

President Cyril Ramaphosa hosted the ANC's "last supper" surrounded by Chinese embassy officials, Russian diplomats and businesspeople who paid between R10 ...

Seated next to the president was Chinese ambassador Chen Xiaodong. Mashatile joked that the event was the last for the party's leadership before they were voted out. A table next to Ramaphosa cost R1.2 million. The ANC uses the gala event to raise funds, and Mashatile's remarks about the ANC as a struggling NGO spoke to the party's fractious state. In a light-hearted speech paving the road for the start of what Ramaphosa described as a "watershed conference", ANC treasurer-general Paul Mashatile said the dinner symbolised the "last supper". President Cyril Ramaphosa hosted the ANC's "last supper" on Thursday night surrounded by Chinese embassy officials, Russian diplomats and businesspeople who paid between R10 000 and R1.2 million for access to the ANC's top officials.

The ANC election takes place in Nasrec, Johannesburg. Follow proceedings live with updates, commentary and analysis from our reporters on the ground.

During his address in Soweto to a small group of ANC members, National Executive Committee member and presidential hopeful Zweli Mkhize spoke on a number of issues facing the party and the country. Dlamini-Zuma is still planning a run for the ANC Presidency from the floor. ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe confirms that the start of the conference has been delayed to 14:00 due to issues with delegate registrations. [Register here](https://tally.so/r/mDq0jX)to join Daily Maverick’s Ferial Haffajee and Queenin Masuabi for a 20-minute bulletin of the day, live from Nasrec. All the delegates have to be registered and shepherded into the Nasrec conference centre where the gathering is taking place. And it means that any decisions about President Cyril Ramaphosa’s future will come only from within the ANC.

Catch all the developments as they happen on day 1 of the ANC's 55th national elective conference at Nasrec in Johannesburg.

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Over the weekend, the committee informed Yengeni that he was not eligible to stand for a leadership position at the party's elective conference because of his criminal record. He sent an appeal letter to the party's electoral committee, headed by Kgalema Motlanthe. Ntuli is leading nominations for the secretary-general position, with 1 225 votes, despite a lack of endorsement from his home province of KwaZulu-Natal. Unless the opposition can convince the courts that there was a problem with the voting mechanism, this is the end of the road for impeachment proceedings against Cyril Ramaphosa in Parliament. We therefore wish to confirm that you are no longer disqualified from being a candidate for the NEC positions during the 55th national conference of the ANC," the appeal letter stated. He will also not have a better-quality NEC, judging from the nomination list that emerged from the branches, writes Carol Paton. The committee has since submitted its court papers. They did not want the publication of the final list after gender parity considerations had been taken into consideration. The matter, which was held virtually, was dismissed with costs. Mashatile says the money they charge the businesspeople for their dinners really helps a lot. He says this year's congress is a watershed moment for the ANC. He says they are confident that the "glory" of the movement will be restored.

Vocal delegates at the ANC's 55th national conference at Nasrec in Johannesburg, on 16 December 2022. (Photo: Leila Dougan/Daily Maverick).

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Speaking at an engagement in KwaZulu-Natal last week, former president Jacob Zuma seemed to ask supporters to heckle current ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa.

We as branches will allow a person who has admitted to buying that position to address us? But Zuma effectively campaigned for the ANC president’s address to be disrupted. The former president said: “As delegates you will go there and listen to him deliver the organisational report?

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