ANC NWC to meet with KZN, Gauteng PECs to give feedback on their election performances
The Democratic Alliance’s election campaign comes after the governing African National Congress (ANC) unleashed its top brass across the length and breadth of the province in an intensified bid to retain majority.
FILE: ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula. Picture: @MYANC/X
JOHANNESBURG - The African National Congress (ANC)'s national working committee (NWC) is due to meet with its provincial executives in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng on the back of some continued calls for them to be dissolved.
An invite from secretary-general, Fikile Mbalula, says the meeting, set for Monday, is compulsory, with an agenda set to be shared at a later stage.
Both provinces performed poorly, with the party in KZN only managing to garner 17% of the votes during the May general elections.
There are also some fears that its current crop of leaders is simply not good enough to take on former party president, Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party.
The ANC's NWC is due to meet with its provincial executive committees from both Gauteng and KZN to give them feedback on recent assessments on their performances in the elections.
It does this in the face of fierce lobbying from some within the ANC in KZN for the provincial leadership to be dissolved.
And while the ANC is at pains to avoid using the word disband, some have told EWN that KZN cannot continue without intervention.
It says leaders are simply too inadequate to fend off MK.
The counter-narrative to this view has questioned why the national executive committee (NEC) should be allowed to continue as it only got 40% at the polls but one ANC official said that using this excuse would leave the party paralysed, ultimately sinking it even further.