Buffalo City Metro mayor Princess Faku is among eight senior Eastern Cape leaders who have been elected onto the powerful national executive committee (NEC) of the ANC Women’s League making the province one of the biggest winners at the league’s national elective conference.
What an exhausting weekend it was, but the much-anticipated ninth ANC provincial elective conference has finally come and gone, and a new provincial leadership has been unveiled. It came as a great relief that proceedings, though drawn-out, went relatively smoothly and without any violence, as had been expected, after the “festival of chairs” in 2017.
After the dust settled from the tumultuous ANC provincial elective conference, the political landscape has shifted considerably, with some of the province’s most prominent politicians left out in the cold while new faces are ready to step up and take up the mantle. Councillor Nanziwe Rulashe, who just months ago was physically dragged out of the Amathole district municipality offices, and controversial former Bay councillor Andile Lungisa, were two of the big winners who ascended to the part.