The ANC’s Buffalo City Metro elective conference will convene this weekend, ANC provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane announced yesterday.
“We are just waiting for a verification report from the national office in a day or two,” Mabuyane said.
His announcement comes despite several protests against the conference going ahead.
In one, a group of ANC members from the region slept in front of the party’s provincial office in King William’s Town demanding the conference be shelved until after a Jessie Duarte report into membership rigging is tabled.
Duarte, the ANC deputy secretary general, spent several days in BCM, OR Tambo and Joe Gqabi hearing from ANC members who submitted appeals challenging the outcomes of branch general meetings (BGMs) in preparation for their elective regional conferences.
A First National Bank (FNB) official was dismissed after evidence was found that ANC bank membership forms were manipulated.
Mabuyane said FNB had finalised its investigation and 90 ANC me mbership forms from BCM’s Ward 2 and 20 had been set aside.
He accused under-performing councillors of being behind the protests. The party has a policy to retain at least 60% of its current councillors when candidate lists for the 2016 local elections are drawn up.
The programme will start on Thursday and will see BGMs nominate candidates for both the ward and proportional representation (PR).
“We know of meetings held over the weekend where disgruntled councillors who have fears that the regional executive won’t act in their favour are now fuelling and funding these protests,” said Mabuyane.
“We want to warn them that the REC will have little or nothing to do with nominations for wards. All one has to do is go back to his or her ANC branch and allow his or her comrades to nominate whom they believe will best serve the public. ... That decision wont be made by the REC but by branch members in good standing.”
BCM elective conference to go ahead
“We are just waiting for a verification report from the national office in a day or two,” Mabuyane said.
His announcement comes despite several protests against the conference going ahead.
In one, a group of ANC members from the region slept in front of the party’s provincial office in King William’s Town demanding the conference be shelved until after a Jessie Duarte report into membership rigging is tabled.
Duarte, the ANC deputy secretary general, spent several days in BCM, OR Tambo and Joe Gqabi hearing from ANC members who submitted appeals challenging the outcomes of branch general meetings (BGMs) in preparation for their elective regional conferences.
A First National Bank (FNB) official was dismissed after evidence was found that ANC bank membership forms were manipulated.
Mabuyane said FNB had finalised its investigation and 90 ANC me mbership forms from BCM’s Ward 2 and 20 had been set aside.
He accused under-performing councillors of being behind the protests. The party has a policy to retain at least 60% of its current councillors when candidate lists for the 2016 local elections are drawn up.
The programme will start on Thursday and will see BGMs nominate candidates for both the ward and proportional representation (PR).
“We know of meetings held over the weekend where disgruntled councillors who have fears that the regional executive won’t act in their favour are now fuelling and funding these protests,” said Mabuyane.
“We want to warn them that the REC will have little or nothing to do with nominations for wards. All one has to do is go back to his or her ANC branch and allow his or her comrades to nominate whom they believe will best serve the public. ... That decision wont be made by the REC but by branch members in good standing.”
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