The ANC provincial executive committee is tying up loose ends on its regional councillor candidate lists.
This follows regional list conferences in which branch delegates voted for proportional representative (PR) candidates while branch general meetings and public meetings crafted ward candidate lists.
According to ANC guidelines, the PR and ward lists must conform with a 60% continuity requirement, as well as the party 50/50 gender balance.
In addition to this, the ANC Youth League wants 20% representation in all councils, but the ruling party has not adopted this as its own resolution.
The Daily Dispatch can reveal today that the introduction of youth quotas created deep divisions in OR Tambo, Buffalo City, Amathole and Nelson Mandela Bay Metro as seasoned councillors were placed below youth league members who had not won the confidence of regional list conferences.
In OR Tambo, regional secretary Lulama Ngcukayithobi said the region’s main challenge was the “new phenomenon” of 20% youth on the lists.
“The OR Tambo list has been sent back to the region for it to be brought into compliance with the 50% women quota. We have made progress. We are almost in compliance,” he said.
In Dr WB Rubusana (BCM) region, mayoral committee member Phumla Nazo, who meets both the continuity and gender criteria, slid from position 9 to 22, while his younger comrade Antonio Carelse was pushed up from 19 to 9.
Another younger candidate now in the top 10 is Sinethemba Mashalaba (from 24 to 7), while former BCM mayor and MPAC chairman Sakhumzi Caga plunged from 7 to 19.
Several branches in the Amathole region lodged complaints with the provincial list (PL) committee after provincial leaders instructed regional secretary Teris Ntutu to nullify certain branches and reconvene them. The branches – mainly from Nkonkobe, Amahlathi, Ngqushwa and Mbashe sub-regions – complained to the provincial leaders that the regional leadership had failed to implement a verdict by the PLC.
In a letter seen by the Dispatch, ANC provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane wrote to PEC deployees early this month, urging them to “resolve all outstanding matters” on the interim branch structure issue.
“The branches are waiting for the implementation of the PLC/PEC decision by the RLC.
“Non-implementation of these decisions undermines the decisions of the PEC,” he urges.
Mabuyane said the PEC was finalising regional lists yesterday, and that today the national list committee would meet to discuss how registered disputes should be resolved.
In the Eastern Cape disputes were registered in OR Tambo, Buffalo City, Amathole and the Bay.
20% youth quota ruffles feathers
This follows regional list conferences in which branch delegates voted for proportional representative (PR) candidates while branch general meetings and public meetings crafted ward candidate lists.
According to ANC guidelines, the PR and ward lists must conform with a 60% continuity requirement, as well as the party 50/50 gender balance.
In addition to this, the ANC Youth League wants 20% representation in all councils, but the ruling party has not adopted this as its own resolution.
The Daily Dispatch can reveal today that the introduction of youth quotas created deep divisions in OR Tambo, Buffalo City, Amathole and Nelson Mandela Bay Metro as seasoned councillors were placed below youth league members who had not won the confidence of regional list conferences.
In OR Tambo, regional secretary Lulama Ngcukayithobi said the region’s main challenge was the “new phenomenon” of 20% youth on the lists.
“The OR Tambo list has been sent back to the region for it to be brought into compliance with the 50% women quota. We have made progress. We are almost in compliance,” he said.
In Dr WB Rubusana (BCM) region, mayoral committee member Phumla Nazo, who meets both the continuity and gender criteria, slid from position 9 to 22, while his younger comrade Antonio Carelse was pushed up from 19 to 9.
Another younger candidate now in the top 10 is Sinethemba Mashalaba (from 24 to 7), while former BCM mayor and MPAC chairman Sakhumzi Caga plunged from 7 to 19.
Several branches in the Amathole region lodged complaints with the provincial list (PL) committee after provincial leaders instructed regional secretary Teris Ntutu to nullify certain branches and reconvene them. The branches – mainly from Nkonkobe, Amahlathi, Ngqushwa and Mbashe sub-regions – complained to the provincial leaders that the regional leadership had failed to implement a verdict by the PLC.
In a letter seen by the Dispatch, ANC provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane wrote to PEC deployees early this month, urging them to “resolve all outstanding matters” on the interim branch structure issue.
“The branches are waiting for the implementation of the PLC/PEC decision by the RLC.
“Non-implementation of these decisions undermines the decisions of the PEC,” he urges.
Mabuyane said the PEC was finalising regional lists yesterday, and that today the national list committee would meet to discuss how registered disputes should be resolved.
In the Eastern Cape disputes were registered in OR Tambo, Buffalo City, Amathole and the Bay.
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