Delegates for the ANC's provincial general council have started trickling in at the Billy Francis Hall in Greenpoint, as registration started at 8am today.
This is where the more than 600 delegates to the ANC's elective conference to be held in Nasrec between December 16 and 20 will consolidate their mandates on who they want to lead the ruling party when President Jacob Zuma's term of office comes to an end next month.
The meeting, which is the second highest decision-making body to an elective provincial conference, will be held at the East London City Hall.
The party's spokesman Gift Ngqodi confirmed yesterday the ANC's treasurer-general Zweli Mkhize will deliver the keynote address once all delegates register and credentials are approved.
The PGC comes while a group led by the then provincial chairman Phumulo Masualle are still awaiting the outcomes of a dispute they registered on the legitimacy of the new Oscar Mabuyane-led provincial executive committee.
The ANC's national executive committee assigned a Sibusiso Ndebele-led task team to investigate events leading to what is known as the conference of chairs after delegates to the October conference threw chairs at each other after they couldn't agree on credentials of the conference.
When the fight which resulted in hospitalisation of 15 people started, Masualle's supporters left the conference venue but others remained and subsequently Mabuyane was elected chairman.
Ndebele is expected to table his report to the national executive committee this weekend, for the executive body to decide whether the PEC is legitimate or not.
The results would have far-reaching implications considering the High Court ruling in the ANC Free State case yesterday. In that case the court found the PEC as illegitimate and subsequently nullified several branch general meetings and annual general meetings it presided over.
This was after some branches asked the court to make a ruling about the legitimacy of the Free State PEC whose term of office has since expired.
The court ruled that B(A)GMs of the affected branches will have to be rerun for the branches to be able to take part in next month's elective conference.
Delegates start arriving for ANC council indaba
This is where the more than 600 delegates to the ANC's elective conference to be held in Nasrec between December 16 and 20 will consolidate their mandates on who they want to lead the ruling party when President Jacob Zuma's term of office comes to an end next month.
The meeting, which is the second highest decision-making body to an elective provincial conference, will be held at the East London City Hall.
The party's spokesman Gift Ngqodi confirmed yesterday the ANC's treasurer-general Zweli Mkhize will deliver the keynote address once all delegates register and credentials are approved.
The PGC comes while a group led by the then provincial chairman Phumulo Masualle are still awaiting the outcomes of a dispute they registered on the legitimacy of the new Oscar Mabuyane-led provincial executive committee.
The ANC's national executive committee assigned a Sibusiso Ndebele-led task team to investigate events leading to what is known as the conference of chairs after delegates to the October conference threw chairs at each other after they couldn't agree on credentials of the conference.
When the fight which resulted in hospitalisation of 15 people started, Masualle's supporters left the conference venue but others remained and subsequently Mabuyane was elected chairman.
Ndebele is expected to table his report to the national executive committee this weekend, for the executive body to decide whether the PEC is legitimate or not.
The results would have far-reaching implications considering the High Court ruling in the ANC Free State case yesterday. In that case the court found the PEC as illegitimate and subsequently nullified several branch general meetings and annual general meetings it presided over.
This was after some branches asked the court to make a ruling about the legitimacy of the Free State PEC whose term of office has since expired.
The court ruled that B(A)GMs of the affected branches will have to be rerun for the branches to be able to take part in next month's elective conference.
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