By Thys Khiba – The African National Congress (ANC) secretary general Fikile Mbalula indicated that the ANC is investigating the legitimacy of the party’s ‘fradulent‘ regional conference of Dr Kenneth Kaunda region in the North West province.
ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula in conversation with Stephen Sackur on BBC Hard Talk
The investigated and 9th regional conference took place on the weekend of the 9-10 June 2023 at Bona Bona Game Lodge near Wolmaransstaad.
This comes after disgruntled members of the party from the JB Marks local municipality and Matlosana local municipality alleged that the conference was fraudulent and manipulated by the provincial executive committee (PEC) members to give victory to a particular faction.
Mbalula has directed party national executive committee (NEC) members led by Convenor Soviet Lekganyane to conduct an immediate investigation on the validity, and legitimacy of the complaints or disputes.
“It has come to my attention that the regional conference of Dr Kenneth Kaunda Region that took place on the weekend of the 09-10 June 2023 was engulfed in challenges of registration and credentials report that was contested in plenary.
“I have also received complaints and disputes about how the conference was conducted by PEC members deployed to the above-mentioned conference,” said Mbalula.
Mbalula has directed the ANC members and provincial secretary Louis Diremelo in the province to put on hold the conference that was not concluded until the end of the investigation by the NEC members.
In a battle of national roads, Dr Kenneth Kaunda district municipality mayor, Nikiwe Julia Num faced off against her JB Marks local municipality mayor, Gaba Thithiba Ka Qhele for the chair position. The battle appeared to be a regional supremacy.
Meanwhile, the ANC in Bojanala has postponed their regional conference to next week from the 28-29 June 2023.
The interim regional ccommittee (IRC) had a meeting on Thursday, 22 June to resolve that the final registration and conference will take place at Rustenburg Civic Centre at 08:00am.
Party members are expected to finalise their registration processes and collect their tags on 27 June 2023.
Delegates are expected to nominate and vote for the Rustenburg local municipality mayor Sheila Mabale-Huma and Madibeng local municipality mayor, Douglas Maimane for the chair position.
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