President Cyril Ramaphosa will no longer close the ANC’s North West provincial conference after it was hit by a security breach. The cash-strapped ruling party is looking at having a second leg of the gathering in two weeks’ time.
The ANC has opened a criminal case against a group that stormed its registration point at Olympia Park Stadium in Rustenberg and took accreditation tags, which were later cloned by people seeking to participate in the conference illegally.
Some members of the crowd, said Mokonyane, were rowdy, drunk and ill-disciplined. They manhandled and eventually overpowered the security personnel and the party’s admin staff. The tags that were taken and later cloned were meant to be distributed after a readjustment of voting delegates. This was after the Interim Provincial Committee and the Interim Regional Committee were stripped of their voting powers bybrought by an aggrieved member who argued that the IPC structure was unconstitutional as its term had lapsed three years ago.
Deputy President David Mabuza opened the conference on Saturday evening. President Cyril Ramaphosa had been expected to close the conference on Sunday, but was advised not to. “He really wanted to address the conference,” said Bapela.Voting for the top five leadership began on Sunday evening.
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