The Eastern Cape ANC chair, Oscar Mabuyane, will be available for a second term when the province holds its conference in December.
is ready to lead the province for another term. The ANC provincial heavyweight and one of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s loyal allies said that when the province holds its conference in December, he will put his hat back in the ring.
“If it’s not broken, why do you fix it? As long as people are still available to serve when they are nominated. All of us will be nominated, if possible, by branches. If we are not nominated that would not mean we must go around and fight with everyone. I’ve done my part, I’ve been in the leadership of the province for almost 12 years, but there is still a lot of work that needs to be done,” he said.
But some Eastern Cape leaders are hedging their bets on ANC provincial treasurer Babalo Madikizela also running for the position. The Northern Cape was the first province to run an uncontested conference this year, with Zamani Saul, another Ramaphosa lieutenant, receiving the mandate from delegates. The Eastern Cape conference that elected Mabuyane as the provincial chairperson was challenged in court after it degenerated into chaos when delegates threw chairs and many people were injured. Ramaphosa dubbed it “theThe Constitutional Court and other courts dismissed the challenge. The NEC instituted its own investigation and tasked former transport ministerThe Ndebele report recommended dissolving the provincial executive committee and setting up a task team to rerun the conference.
“Part of our work, which we started in 2019, [was] trying to solve the historic problem of gatekeeping, factionalism and membership manipulation,” said Mabuyane. “We had to set up systems as a province — some of those that you see at the national level are systems we started in the province.
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