Overview
- ANC leaders in the Eastern Cape will brief the party’s national leadership at Luthuli House on Monday after an interim High Court order stopped the provincial conference over alleged flaws in the lead-up process.
- Oscar Mabuyane, the provincial chair, called the stoppage a coordinated effort to weaken the province and said the conference would reconvene within weeks once court matters run their course.
- In Limpopo, Dr Phophi Ramathuba was elected ANC provincial chair unopposed and the full top five leadership slate faced no contest, with President Cyril Ramaphosa closing the conference on Sunday.
- The Limpopo conference resolved to target the province’s water crisis, urging the Water and Sanitation Minister and local authorities to unblock stalled bulk supply and reticulation projects that have left many communities short of reliable water.
- Strain in the ANC’s alliance with the South African Communist Party surfaced at the Limpopo gathering when delegates booed the SACP representative, and Ramathuba said ties have frayed since the party chose to contest elections on its own.