The ANC’s regional and provincial conferences ahead of the October local elections will give us a sense of how many regions the Radical Economic Transformation (RET, Magashule) and CR (Ramaphosa) factions will control in the build-up to the December 2022 national conference. This process will.
Zuma hurt by those who booed KZN premier and party provincial secretary
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Durban – Former president Jacob Zuma was hurt by the booing of the ANC s senior provincial leaders in KwaZulu-Natal following his last court appearance at the Pietermaritzburg High Court earlier in May.
Amid reports that Zuma will not address his supporters if there was a repeat of last week s booing of party leaders, Zuma s spokesperson Vukile Mathabela said that he was not aware of these reports and Zuma had not taken kindly to the booing. He has said before that when his supporters are here, they are here to support him and not other things. As a leader of the ANC he was hurt quite a lot by the booing incident because even though it s a democracy and people have a right to express themselves he doesn t want such things to happen at an event that is held in his name, Mathabela said.
Election results pointer to SAâs future political direction
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This week 36 000 registered voters across the country participated in 40 by-elections, many of which were postponed during the national lockdowns last year.
As the final round of voting prior to the municipal elections later this year, the smooth running, or not, of the elections this week, as much as their results, will offer useful information to estimate what may follow in October.
Such estimates play an important part when the results of the nationwide municipal elections are taken as indicative of the direction that South African politics in general will take in the near future, and where the electorate may place its loyalties when they vote at the next polls. Commentators will therefore study the outcomes of the by-elections this week closely to develop estimates for the results of the municipal elections.