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ANC treasurer-general Paul Mashatile said that party leaders believed this would be better.
Eyewitness News understands that this decision was taken at the ANC’s special NEC on Monday, which was convened to deliberate overdraft policy documents ahead of the party’s policy conference which is due to sit in the coming months.
Embattled former Health Minister Zweli Mkhize, suspended ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule and convicted perjuror Bathabile Dlamini were all in Durban for the eThekwini regional conference, with video footage of Mkhize addressing delegates circulating on social media.
Party spokesperson Pule Mabe on Friday said the top six were yet to meet to discuss the Bathabile Dlamini issue.
Last week, the former Social Development minister avoided jail time with the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court fining her R200,000 or four years in jail.
Last month, Dlamini lambasted suggestions from acting secretary general Paul Mashatile that she must step down following her perjury conviction.
Former Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini was sentenced by the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on 1 April 2022. This after she was found guilty of perjury in March 2022.
Magistrate Betty Khumalo delivered a sentence of four years imprisonment or a fine of R200,000 half of which are suspended.
Should she be imprisoned, two years of the sentence will be suspended.
Dlamini was found guilty last month of lying under oath during the Ngoepe inquiry into the Sassa grants debacle in 2017.
Bathabile Dlamini is being edged out of the league and her active participation in the ANC following her perjury conviction in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court.
Former Minister Bathabile Dlamini, who previously served as minister of social development, was found guilty of perjury by the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court two weeks ago.
ANC Women’s League President Bathabile Dlamini is a step closer to being asked to “step aside” after she was found guilty of perjury.
Dlamini was found guilty of perjury by the Johannesburg Magistrates Court earlier this month for lying under oath during a 2017 inquiry into the social grants debacle at the South African Social Security Agency.
Eyewitness News had a one-on-one interview with African National Congress NEC member, Dr Gwen Ramokgopa, who gave her opinions on the party’s step aside rule pertaining to its women’s league president, Bathabile Dlamini; party president Cyril Ramaphosa’s expected run for a second term and also on her position should she be asked to step in as ANC secretary-general. #ANC #GwenRamokgopa #CyrilRamaphosa
This has reignited the debate around her fate as the league’s president as the ANC’s step aside rule dictates that all party members accused of crime should step down from office.
The Johannesburg Magistrates Court found Dlamini lied under oath in her oral and written testimony at the inquiry into the 2017 South African Social Security Agency grants crisis.
Former social development minister Bathabile Dlamini was found guilty of perjury and is out on a warning until her return to the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court for sentencing next month.