ANALYSIS: Nasrec Band-Aid, ripped: ANC’s election lists fiasco exposes the ruling party’s deep fissures By Marianne Merten marianne_merten
The ANC 2019 election lists for Parliament and the nine provincial legislatures have gone through the hierarchy of ANC decision-making. The lists have received the stamp of approval not only of the National Working Committee , in charge of the day-to-day operations, but also the ANC’s highest decision-making structure between national conferences, the National Executive Committee .
Such strategy and tactics are well-honed in the ANC, dating back 15 years or so to the bruising run-up to the 2007 Polokwane national conference where Jacob Zuma was elected party president, clearing his way to the Union Buildings after the 2009 elections. One senior parliamentary insider has dismissed such an arrangement. But it’s a replay of tensions between Magashule and ANC Chief Whip Jackson Mthembu after Ramaphosa’s Cabinet reshuffle of February 2018, when Magashule indicated he wanted those who lost their positions in the executive to head committees.
This matters little in terms of process. Now the 2019 election lists are with the IEC, changes by political parties themselves are limited by the submitted rankings and also limited to specific timeframes, effectively once a year after an initial five-day window period after the election results are announced.
Crucially, the ANC is on public record that integrity considerations were supposed to be part of the public representative nomination process — and those integrity checks should long have been done. The integrity commission long has been hamstrung by this innocent until proven guilty refrain from within the ANC — with the 2019 twist that being named in a commission of inquiry does not mean guilt.
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