The ANC in the Eastern Cape says it is happy that major policy proposals it pushed for have found expression at the party’s national conference. These include proposals on the energy crisis, an amendment of the ANC’s constitution, the basic income grant and organisational renewal. The conference, which was concluded in the early hours on Friday in hybrid format after an adjournment in Nasrec in December, resolved that Eskom’s challenges needed to be dealt with urgently and that steps should .
Newly elected ANC national executive committee member Babalo Madikizela says the provincial executive committee has not done enough to unite the party in the Eastern Cape. Madikizela, the former provincial treasurer of the party, said this prevented the province from securing crucial spots, particularly in the top seven, at the ANC’s 55th national elective conference at Nasrec in Johannesburg.
The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal says it supports President Cyril Ramaphosa after he was re-elected party leader for the second term at Nasrec Expo Centre, Johannesburg, on Monday.
The Eastern Cape ANC’s lobby team has been hard at work in the past two days meeting leaders from other provinces in order to find “common ground” for its preferred top six leadership. A delegate from the Dr WB Rubusana region told the Dispatch the provincial lobby team has managed to “reach agreement” with Mpumalanga, Northern Cape and the Western Cape.
Eastern Cape ANC's provincial chair and deputy president hopeful, Oscar Mabuyane, says he's got nothing to lose in the party's national conference currently underway at Nasrec, Johannesburg. Mabuyane has been nominated alongside Ronald Lamola and Paul Mashatile for the position of deputy president.