South Africa’s governing African National Congress canceled additional media briefings for the day late on Sunday and mentioned it might present additional updates on Monday.
Members had been nonetheless voting for the get together’s leaders shortly earlier than midnight on Sunday, with the result of a number of of the contests nonetheless hanging within the steadiness. The results of the election at the moment are expected to be introduced on Monday.
The candidates for prime positions
President Cyril Ramaphosa and former Health Minister Zweli Mkhize are the one nominees to guide the get together.
Cooperative Governance Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who narrowly misplaced to Ramaphosa within the contest to guide the ANC in 2017 and is among the many president’s detractors, declined a nomination from the convention ground to run for the highest submit.
Deputy President David Mabuza additionally mentioned he wasn’t obtainable to be re-elected deputy get together chief, leaving the place to be contested by Justice Minister Ronald Lamola, Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane and ANC Treasurer-General Paul Mashatile. Mabuza’s determination means he’s unlikely to serve a second time period because the nation’s deputy president.
These are the candidates for the opposite prime posts:
Secretary-General:
Mdumiseni Ntuli, a former ANC secretary within the KwaZulu-Natal province
Phumulo Masualle, the deputy minister of public enterprises
Fikile Mbalula, the transport minister
Deputy Secretary-General:
Nomvula Mokonyane, a former minister of environmental affairs
Tina Joemat-Pettersson, a former power minister
Second Deputy Secretary-General:
Maropene Ramokgopa, a presidential adviser on worldwide relations
Ronalda Nalomanga, an ANC official from the Western Cape province
Chairperson:
Stanley Mathabatha, the premier of the Limpopo province
Gwede Mantashe, the mineral sources and power minister, and incumbent ANC chairman
David Masondo, the deputy finance minister
Treasurer-General:
Bejani Chauke, a particular adviser to Ramaphosa
Pule Mabe, the ANC’s spokesman
Mzwandile Masina, a former mayor of the Ekurhuleni municipality
Gwen Ramakgopa, a former deputy well being minister
ANC condemns accusations of vote shopping for (Dec. 18, 3:23 p.m.)
Accusations of vote shopping for broken the ANC’s model and undermined the credibility of its leaders and the apply wouldn’t be tolerated, based on spokesman Pule Mabe. Security officers and marshals had been briefed to report any suspicious change of cash to the convention’s steering committee, he advised reporters.
Vote shopping for is the “antithesis of what we stand for,” Mabe mentioned. “The leadership of the ANC must be beyond reproach.”
ANC registers delegates to select chief (Dec. 17, 10 p.m.)
The ANC accomplished the registration of 4 426 voting delegates attending its convention.
Challenges that delayed the method included a brand new registration system, a poor pc community, defective gear and energy cuts, the ANC’s credentials committee mentioned in a report on Saturday. There had been additionally late adjustments to some delegate lists and issues with tags and pictures, it mentioned.
The five-day convention is because of finish on Dec. 20.
ANC membership nosedives (Dec. 17, 9 p.m.)
The get together’s membership has fallen sharply over the previous two years, a decline that mirrors its waning assist.
The ANC credential committee’s report exhibits the get together has 691,381 paid-up members, down from 1.6 million in July 2020.
“The sharp fall in membership numbers shows the general apathy toward the party and organizational disarray,” mentioned Melanie Verwoerd, an unbiased political analyst and former ANC lawmaker. “The use of an electronic membership system by the ANC since its last national conference in 2017 also lends credence to suspicions then that membership numbers had been inflated.”
Godongwana says coverage shift unlikely (Dec. 17, 8 a.m. )
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana advised enterprise leaders attending a breakfast on the sidelines of the convention that ANC coverage isn’t decided by the get together’s leaders and gained’t essentially shift if energy does change palms. He additionally mentioned he’d be ready to proceed working with Ramaphosa or Mkhize.
“Unlike in the USA where the policy belongs to the president, policy belongs to the party, so irrespective of the change in government, the party will continue to pursue its policy,” Godongwana mentioned. “I am not panicking an inch about who comes out.”
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