The ambitions of three ANC members to become Ward41 councillor in Zwelitsha have been dealt a heavy blow.
The ANC’s national list committee has ruled that the branch general meeting at which they were nominated for the post be restarted from scratch.
Sindiswa Skepe, Buntu Dikana and Nozuko Sizani are believed to have been front runners for the position.
The ruling by national list committee convener Fikile Xasa comes after disgruntled ANC members in the branch lodged a complaint to the provincial executive committee.
Although it was initially dismissed, they then took their complaint to the national structure.
Xasa ruled that: “The branch must be made to urgently reconvene both the nominating branch general meeting (BGM) and public community meeting.”
The disgruntled members had complained that names on the list for local government elections did not reflect what ward members wanted.
Speaking to the Daily Dispatch yesterday, a branch member who requested to remain anonymous said most branch members wanted current ward councillor Tony Mtintsilana to continue.
“REC member Koko Godlo was facilitating the meeting and because he does not personally know branch members, the people that were nominated actually nominated themselves, which is against our constitution,” the ANC member said.
Xasa ruled that an investigation should be instituted into allegations of lost membership forms in 2014.
Membership form rigging is not new in the region as some branches await the results of an investigation by the party’s treasurer-general Zweli Mkhize.
The investigation centres on allegations of backdating FNB receipts of membership forms in branches across the region.
Commenting on the ruling, Dr WB Rubusana region’s acting secretary Mkhawuleli Maleki said the region would abide by Xasa’s instructions.
“When we are going to reconvene a BGM, the branch’s leadership secures a date for which as the region we send a deployee to officiate,” he said.
The branch is currently being led by a task team.
“When the verdict stipulates that the BGM must start afresh, then that nullifies everything. It becomes immaterial now whoever had emerged before as a prospect candidate,” Maleki said.
Blow for three ward councillor hopefuls
The ANC’s national list committee has ruled that the branch general meeting at which they were nominated for the post be restarted from scratch.
Sindiswa Skepe, Buntu Dikana and Nozuko Sizani are believed to have been front runners for the position.
The ruling by national list committee convener Fikile Xasa comes after disgruntled ANC members in the branch lodged a complaint to the provincial executive committee.
Although it was initially dismissed, they then took their complaint to the national structure.
Xasa ruled that: “The branch must be made to urgently reconvene both the nominating branch general meeting (BGM) and public community meeting.”
The disgruntled members had complained that names on the list for local government elections did not reflect what ward members wanted.
Speaking to the Daily Dispatch yesterday, a branch member who requested to remain anonymous said most branch members wanted current ward councillor Tony Mtintsilana to continue.
“REC member Koko Godlo was facilitating the meeting and because he does not personally know branch members, the people that were nominated actually nominated themselves, which is against our constitution,” the ANC member said.
Xasa ruled that an investigation should be instituted into allegations of lost membership forms in 2014.
Membership form rigging is not new in the region as some branches await the results of an investigation by the party’s treasurer-general Zweli Mkhize.
The investigation centres on allegations of backdating FNB receipts of membership forms in branches across the region.
Commenting on the ruling, Dr WB Rubusana region’s acting secretary Mkhawuleli Maleki said the region would abide by Xasa’s instructions.
“When we are going to reconvene a BGM, the branch’s leadership secures a date for which as the region we send a deployee to officiate,” he said.
The branch is currently being led by a task team.
“When the verdict stipulates that the BGM must start afresh, then that nullifies everything. It becomes immaterial now whoever had emerged before as a prospect candidate,” Maleki said.
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