ANC deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte told Eyewitness News the PEC should have considered more factors than legal implications when making its decision.

In a wide-ranging interview with Eyewitness News on Wednesday, Deputy Finance Minister David Masondo disagreed with pundits who questioned why the country was further downgraded.

The party argued that while the ANC at the national level dealt with the issue of asking members to 'step aside', the PEC member should be allowed to participate in party activities.

ANC provincial secretary Jacob Khawe told Eyewitness News that this would be done before the end of the week.

The ANC in the North West has been marred by deep divisions which failed to heal even after the removal of Supra Mahumapelo as both provincial chairperson and premier.

The system is meant to root out gatekeeping and the buying of members ahead of leadership contests in the governing party.

It said that the two parties could not agree on how to handle matters of governance in the metro’s entities.

The party’s national chairperson Gwede Manatashe has moved to clear the ANC’s position on retired General Mojo Motau and his ANC Cadres Summit.

Machaba told Eyewitness News that he would join Herman Mashaba’s ActionSA political movement, saying that the DA has made it clear that it no longer wished to remain in centre politics but to pursue a right-wing ideology.

In the 135-page document compiled with a group that Mojo still refuses name, they claim that the enemy of the ANC is within the party.

The DA suffered a bruising few years after getting into a coalition with the EFF, where disagreements resulted in the DA eventually losing control of the City of Johannesburg.

In his acceptance speech delivered on Sunday afternoon after he won the race to lead the country’s main opposition, John Steenhuisen that said he wanted to take both the DA and South Africa to greater heights and empower every citizen.

During an emotional address, Steenhuisen has paid homage to the city of his birth where he started his political career as a councillor in the eThekwini Municipality.

Steenhuisen had been acting in the position following a tumultuous period, which saw the DA lose its leader when Mmusi Maimane resigned in October 2019.

John Steenhuisen was speaking on Sunday during his outgoing address on day two of the DA’s virtual elective conference.

The Democratic Alliance’s 2,000 delegates voted until 5pm on Saturday for the party's new leader.

Ntuli, who is contesting John Steenhuisen for the position of federal leader, said this would help loosen the load on whoever ends up being at the helm of such a big party.

This is one of numerous amendments that delegates opted not to support at the DA’s elective conference currently under way via virtual platforms.