The ANC’s provincial working committee has postponed the much-awaited Buffalo City regional elective conference by a week.
Making the announcement yesterday, a day after the PWC met behind closed doors at the party’s provincial head office at Calata House in King William’s Town, provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane said: “We discovered that there are still about five outstanding disputes that had not been reviewed. The PWC said the conference must be held next week rather to clear out all these disputes.”
The region is considered a party hotspot as its leadership battles factions – one group has already marched on the ANC’s regional offices in Oxford Street.
The disgruntled members want answers as to why the outcomes of an investigation by the party’s deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte in May has not been tabled.
Duarte was tasked to look into allegations of “gate-keeping” and manipulation of branch membership through using a First National Bank (FNB) branch in Mdantsane.
An FNB official has since been dismissed after evidence was found that some ANC branch membership forms had been backdated.
Mabuyane would not say whether any of the five branches which lodged disputes formed part of the backdating scam.
The conference has been postponed several times since March.
Ayanda Matiti, one of the organisers of the August march, vowed the conference would not sit until the Duarte report had been tabled.
He is hoping to contest the regional chairman position against Buffalo City Metro deputy mayor Xola Pakati.
Of the 35 branches which have so far held successful branch general meetings, only members known to be Pakati’s supporters have been nominated.
If the conference sits next week, Matiti will have to secure support from a quarter of conference delegates in order to make it onto the ballot paper as the party’s general rules state that any candidate has to be nominated by at least five branches, failing which he or she must secure 25% support from the conference floor. — zineg@dispatch.co.za
ANC branch disputes delay BCM region election
Making the announcement yesterday, a day after the PWC met behind closed doors at the party’s provincial head office at Calata House in King William’s Town, provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane said: “We discovered that there are still about five outstanding disputes that had not been reviewed. The PWC said the conference must be held next week rather to clear out all these disputes.”
The region is considered a party hotspot as its leadership battles factions – one group has already marched on the ANC’s regional offices in Oxford Street.
The disgruntled members want answers as to why the outcomes of an investigation by the party’s deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte in May has not been tabled.
Duarte was tasked to look into allegations of “gate-keeping” and manipulation of branch membership through using a First National Bank (FNB) branch in Mdantsane.
An FNB official has since been dismissed after evidence was found that some ANC branch membership forms had been backdated.
Mabuyane would not say whether any of the five branches which lodged disputes formed part of the backdating scam.
The conference has been postponed several times since March.
Ayanda Matiti, one of the organisers of the August march, vowed the conference would not sit until the Duarte report had been tabled.
He is hoping to contest the regional chairman position against Buffalo City Metro deputy mayor Xola Pakati.
Of the 35 branches which have so far held successful branch general meetings, only members known to be Pakati’s supporters have been nominated.
If the conference sits next week, Matiti will have to secure support from a quarter of conference delegates in order to make it onto the ballot paper as the party’s general rules state that any candidate has to be nominated by at least five branches, failing which he or she must secure 25% support from the conference floor. — zineg@dispatch.co.za
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