Various African National Congress (ANC) branches in the Moretele Local Municipality in the North West have decided to take their grievances to the party’s headquarters at Luthuli House in Johannesburg.
This after branch party members failed to convene a planned councillors’ nomination meeting, because of divisions.
The dispute over the ANC’s candidates lists for the local government elections appears to have escalated.
Some ANC members say they want the ANC Provincial List Committee to take their concerns seriously.
The video below, ANC media briefing on candidate selection for the Local Government Elections:
Others say members that were not elected in branch general meetings have been appointed to be candidate-elects in the wards.
An ANC member says: “The reason for us going to Luthuli House is that we are experiencing a problem with the Interim Provincial Committee (IPC), now, the IPC is changing the list of the ANC, we strongly believe things didn’t go well, it is manipulation.
The IPC members have interest in this thing to make sure that they put their people forth so that they can control them within their municipalities.”
A disgruntled member says: “Maybe the province should come and intervene, will tell them what we want as a community, not an individual, because the person coming with her, do that so that we can vote for her as councillor candidate and that person is an individual who is nominated by someone, not the community, so we don’t want that.”
