Anc kzn conference
Zikalala: We need to engage comrades who take ANC to court
The ANC elective conference in KZN was met with a court interdict at the 11th hour last week by members who wanted to prevent the event from going ahead.
Talk Radio 702’s Karima Brown spoke to senior EWN reporter Ziyanda Ngcobo about the latest developments in the provincial structure of the governing party.
Ramaphosa gave the closing address at the eighth provincial conference in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday.
President Ramaphosa says ANC members will be forced to work together because unity is about placing the organization above the individual
Police say the man killed sustained injuries to the body and was declared dead at the scene.
It’s understood he was coming back from the conference when he was shot in Umlazi.
KZN ANC chair Sihle Zikalala and Treasurer Nomusa Dube-Ncube were elected unopposed.
Mike Mabuyakhulu has been elected as deputy chairperson of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal. He has won by 912 votes.
The organisation is celebrating after a group of disgruntled members lost their court bid to have the elections halted for the second time.
On Thursday, six members from the Lower South Coast and Moses Mabhida regions went to the Pietermaritzburg High Court in a bid to obtain another urgent interdict.
Provincial coordinator Sihle Zikalala confirmed the two branches have launched legal action but it’s not yet clear on what basis.
During the provincial task team’s press briefing convenor Mike Mabuyakhulu said most issues raised by the disgruntled regions had been addressed.
Last month, attempts to host an elective gathering were thwarted by aggrieved branches from the divided Moses Mabhida, Lower South Coast and Harry Gwala regions.
Some members interdicted the conference from going ahead last month because of concerns about poor planning ahead of the event.
The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal, North West, Eastern Cape and Free State have been an ongoing headache for the party’s leadership.
The Pietermaritzburg High Court granted an interdict on Friday after the six ANC regions argued that the process leading up to the provincial conference was marred with irregularities.
The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal has apologised to ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe for disrupting his address on 8 June 2018.
ANC provincial coordinator Sihle Zikalala says the conduct of their delegates who disrupted Mantashe embarrasses the ruling party in the province.
ANC KZN coordinator Zikalala said they hope the court action will not derail efforts to unify the ANC in the province.