ANC national executive committee deployees in the province have identified four party branches in Buffalo City Metro they regard as hot spots.
Team leader Zizi Kodwa listed wards 20 and 30 in Mdantsane and Dimbaza’s Ward 5 and Zwelitsha’s ward 25, as problem branches.
The Daily Dispatch reported last year that ward 20 and 30 councillors – Sizinzo Madikane and Thenjiwe Mankahlana – were constantly under attack from residents over lack of jobs and the slow pace of service delivery.
The disgruntled residents even wrote to mayor Zukiswa Ncitha demanding the councillors be removed.
Kodwa said NEC deployees would spend most of their time over the remainder of the week interacting with branch members to establish why there was disunity in these wards.
The visit, starting today, follows earlier interaction with 15 branch delegates per ward on Sunday.
The interaction comes while the region prepares for its elective conference later this month or early next month.
Branch members, mostly from the four identified hot spots, registered disputes directly with the ANC’s coordinator of complaints and disputes, deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte.
Kodwa said this was not regular practice as the complainants had jumped both regional and provincial structures.
The members claimed they had been excluded from BGMs because either their membership forms had disappeared or they were disqualified.
Duarte handled the first phase of disputes by meeting with regional chairmen and women as well as secretaries in Calata House yesterday.
In the afternoon individual members who lodged disputes from across four regions including BCM, OR Tambo, Chris Hani and Amathole presented their side of the story.
Two weeks ago a group of disgruntled ANC members led by senior BCM councillors including Tony Mtintsilana, Rufus Rwexu, Nomiky Mngezi and Mxolisi Nkula marched to Calata House complaining some of them had been left out of the BGMs due to factional fights.
ANC provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane said the group had been asked to lodge formal disputes in which they would be expected to give details of incidents of gate keeping as required by ANC regulations.
At the time the Daily Dispatch reported the provincial executive had resolved to suspend anyone found to have sidelined members due to factional fights over leadership preferences.
Some of the complainants formed part of a group which was summoned to Calata House yesterday to state their cases.
Kodwa said during their consultations with branch leaders on Sunday there were reports of “gatekeeping” and membership forms were being manipulated to favour certain factions.
Another problem was co-operation with the ANC’s alliance partners.
“By the time we leave this region we must make sure the communication lines between the ANC, its alliance partners including the SACP (South African Communist Party), Cosatu and Sanco (the South African National Civic Organisation) are wide open. We have to ensure we work together,” said Kodwa. — zineg@dispatch.co.za
ANC identifies 4 problem branches in BCM
Team leader Zizi Kodwa listed wards 20 and 30 in Mdantsane and Dimbaza’s Ward 5 and Zwelitsha’s ward 25, as problem branches.
The Daily Dispatch reported last year that ward 20 and 30 councillors – Sizinzo Madikane and Thenjiwe Mankahlana – were constantly under attack from residents over lack of jobs and the slow pace of service delivery.
The disgruntled residents even wrote to mayor Zukiswa Ncitha demanding the councillors be removed.
Kodwa said NEC deployees would spend most of their time over the remainder of the week interacting with branch members to establish why there was disunity in these wards.
The visit, starting today, follows earlier interaction with 15 branch delegates per ward on Sunday.
The interaction comes while the region prepares for its elective conference later this month or early next month.
Branch members, mostly from the four identified hot spots, registered disputes directly with the ANC’s coordinator of complaints and disputes, deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte.
Kodwa said this was not regular practice as the complainants had jumped both regional and provincial structures.
The members claimed they had been excluded from BGMs because either their membership forms had disappeared or they were disqualified.
Duarte handled the first phase of disputes by meeting with regional chairmen and women as well as secretaries in Calata House yesterday.
In the afternoon individual members who lodged disputes from across four regions including BCM, OR Tambo, Chris Hani and Amathole presented their side of the story.
Two weeks ago a group of disgruntled ANC members led by senior BCM councillors including Tony Mtintsilana, Rufus Rwexu, Nomiky Mngezi and Mxolisi Nkula marched to Calata House complaining some of them had been left out of the BGMs due to factional fights.
ANC provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane said the group had been asked to lodge formal disputes in which they would be expected to give details of incidents of gate keeping as required by ANC regulations.
At the time the Daily Dispatch reported the provincial executive had resolved to suspend anyone found to have sidelined members due to factional fights over leadership preferences.
Some of the complainants formed part of a group which was summoned to Calata House yesterday to state their cases.
Kodwa said during their consultations with branch leaders on Sunday there were reports of “gatekeeping” and membership forms were being manipulated to favour certain factions.
Another problem was co-operation with the ANC’s alliance partners.
“By the time we leave this region we must make sure the communication lines between the ANC, its alliance partners including the SACP (South African Communist Party), Cosatu and Sanco (the South African National Civic Organisation) are wide open. We have to ensure we work together,” said Kodwa. — zineg@dispatch.co.za
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