President Cyril Ramaphosa's main political rivals, Paul Mashatile and Zweli Mkhize, are expected to push back against calls for his removal during an ANC national executive committee meeting on Monday. | JKwritingz
Juniour Khumalo and Qaanitah HunterANC national executive committee member Nkenke Kekana said the committee could not recall President Cyril Ramaphosa.
A key Mashatile ally and lobbyist, Nkenke Kekana, said the NEC could not seek to remove Ramaphosa and that the president's fate should be decided at the party's conference. He is expected to argue at the ANC meeting that he, too, subjected himself to a parliamentary process and was cleared by the legislature with regard to the allegations he faced.
Kekana added he believed that the ANC should work in the next two weeks to agree to an uncontested leadership race. Mashatile - who holds enormous power as treasurer-general, acting secretary-general and acting deputy secretary-general - is contesting the ANC deputy presidency at the conference, which is expected to begin on 16 December.
Kekana also said that the ANC integrity commission's report on the Phala Phala matter should set the tone for a decision by the party. That report, as well as a report on Mkhize's fate, should be considered by the conference before voting for the ANC presidency, he added.
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