Several senior Eastern Cape ANC MPLs will not return to the legislature after being left off the party’s provincial candidate list for the 2024 general election. The IEC released the final candidate lists for parliament and the nine provincial legislatures on Wednesday. Seasoned politicians who did not make the cut include former health MEC Sindiswa Gomba, standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) provincial chair Mxolisi Dimaza, transport portfolio committee chair Xolani Malamlela and .
The ANC in the Eastern Cape has moved in to quell simmering tensions between Buffalo City mayor Princess Faku and the party’s regional secretary, Antonio Carels.
The ANC’s alliance partners in the Eastern Cape have said they will support the party in the 2024 general elections but have raised a list of concerns they say it needs to pay attention to. Provincial leaders of the alliance said at the weekend that the ANC could no longer ignore the fact that the majority of the people were still living below the poverty line 29 years after SA’s first democratic elections.
Less than 24 hours after being elected as Eastern Cape ANC Youth League chair, controversial public figure Luntu Sokutu is at odds with the league’s mother body.The ANC has asked Sokutu, who was convicted two weeks ago of assaulting the teenage daughter of former soccer referee Ace Ncobo, to submit a copy of the judgment to the party.