The ANC’s national working committee (NWC) has given the Eastern Cape an additional four weeks to wrap up the nomination process at branch level ahead of this year’s local elections.The party’s national executive committee (NEC) originally set a deadline for the end of last month for all its branches across the country to hold general meetings and nominate ANC candidates who will contest as ward and proportional representatives for city and town councils.
But the Daily Dispatch reported two weeks ago that provincial leaders had asked the NWC to extend the deadline, as there were several branches which had challenged the processes followed when some of the candidates were nominated at branch level.
ANC provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane said the majority of these disputes were as a result of screening committee members who did not meet the constitutional requirements of having been an ANC member for at least 10 years.
The screening committees are responsible to “vet” all four candidates who get elected at branch level before their names are taken to the public for further scrutiny.
Mabuyane said due to these disputes, “we had to ask for more time. The NWC has agreed to give us an extension until February 29. The branches which have yet to meet and those that have to redo their branch general meetings have to take advantage of this and race for time”.
The PEC is under pressure to finish the nomination process. Branches will have to prepare for another major event in the party’s calendar this year, the election manifesto launch which will be held in Port Elizabeth in April.
The provincial working committee is expected to receive an updated report of the provincial list committee as well as the elections at a meeting scheduled to be held on Monday. — zineg@dispatch.co.za
ANC extends the nominations process
The party’s national executive committee (NEC) originally set a deadline for the end of last month for all its branches across the country to hold general meetings and nominate ANC candidates who will contest as ward and proportional representatives for city and town councils.
But the Daily Dispatch reported two weeks ago that provincial leaders had asked the NWC to extend the deadline, as there were several branches which had challenged the processes followed when some of the candidates were nominated at branch level.
ANC provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane said the majority of these disputes were as a result of screening committee members who did not meet the constitutional requirements of having been an ANC member for at least 10 years.
The screening committees are responsible to “vet” all four candidates who get elected at branch level before their names are taken to the public for further scrutiny.
Mabuyane said due to these disputes, “we had to ask for more time. The NWC has agreed to give us an extension until February 29. The branches which have yet to meet and those that have to redo their branch general meetings have to take advantage of this and race for time”.
The PEC is under pressure to finish the nomination process. Branches will have to prepare for another major event in the party’s calendar this year, the election manifesto launch which will be held in Port Elizabeth in April.
The provincial working committee is expected to receive an updated report of the provincial list committee as well as the elections at a meeting scheduled to be held on Monday. — zineg@dispatch.co.za
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