NEWSFLASH: Blowback: ANC lists don’t make it through special leaders' meeting By Ferial Haffajee ferialhaffajee
The ANC party lists have been referred to the party’s tough Integrity Commission for review after significant debate in a special NEC meeting held on Monday.
The ANC Elders, a loose grouping led by Cheryl Carolus, as well as the party’s Veterans League led by Snuki Zikalala, have led the public fight against the lists which featured a number of Cabinet ministers and other leaders who are at the centre of the state capture narrative and linked to the two major patronage networks run by Bosasa and by the Gupta family.
In a statement issued after the meeting, the ANC “dismissed the unfounded allegations that lists were tampered with. The process to arrive at the final lists submitted to the IEC went through a democratic, rigorous, thorough and fair process, involving ANC branches, provinces, and Alliance partners, unparalleled by any other political party in this country. This process was guided by strict List Guidelines, adopted in May 2018 by the NEC”.
While the ANC is running its 2019 national campaign as one against corruption and for party reform, many leaders who are at the centre of the project of State Capture are high on the party’s lists. At the Nasrec conference, the ANC noted: “An increase in corruption, factionalism, dishonesty and other negative practices that seriously threaten the goals and support of the ANC.”
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