The long-awaited African National Congress (ANC) provincial elective conference in the North West has been postponed for a second time.
The conference was supposed to have taken place in mid-February but was postponed to this coming weekend. But it has now been delayed yet again.
ANC IPC Coordinator, Hlomani Chauke, says the delay is a result of the party’s new membership system.
“There is a delay, we accept that, but it is not deliberate. It’s because where in which we are now, rebuilding the ANC and this system that is helping us to rebuild the ANC we had to adhere to that.
We have to work within the new system of membership which in fact has made it very difficult for those who normally will rig the branches, rig the branches and pay people or either collect ID books for people who are not even in the meeting.”
“In terms of the wards that we have contested that we have in the province, it is 403. But in terms of the branches, we have about 260 to meet the threshold. So we are working within the 260, and we are taking that where we are sitting, we have already almost done a quarter of the branches, which is encouragement by the way, compared to where we were before. We can see now that there is more energy coming in terms of BBGM’s that are now taking place.”
Race is on for ANC chairpersonship in the North West:
Several African National Congress big guns in the North West province have joined the race for the chairpersonship of the party among them former chairpersons Supra Mahumapelo and Nono Maloyi and current Premier Bushy Maape.
In the past few years, provincial ANC politics have been on unstable grounds. The Mahumapelo-led PEC was disbanded in 2018.
The party is currently led by an interim structure appointed in 2019. Its mandate is to convene a provincial conference within nine months.
