Senior ANC leaders in the Amathole district municipality are said to be unhappy after the ruling party’s provincial leadership issued a directive instructing the caucus to support the appointment of a new chief financial officer (CFO) even though he faces corruption charges.
Just a few months after being elected to the ANC provincial executive committee in May, controversial former ANC Youth League deputy president Andile Lungisa faces the danger of losing his seat in the 35-member PEC after the national ANC suspended him from all party activities until September 2023.
The ANC in the Eastern Cape is going for the jugular at the party’s national conference with four leaders from the province vying for a place in the party's powerful top six.
The newly elected Eastern Cape ANC provincial executive committee, inherits an organisation fraught with “stubborn” divisions, with a collapse of organisational discipline and a decline in ethics, values and traditions of the movement. This was the message delivered by newly elected provincial secretary Lulama Ngcukayitobi when he tabled his organisational report, behind closed doors, at the rather tense ninth ANC provincial elective conference held in East London over the past four days.
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