Overview
- Masuku won the regional chairperson race 184–149 over incumbent Morero, with Masilo Serekele, Sasabona Manganye, Lerato K Bob, and Maxwell Nedzamba elected as her top five colleagues.
- Approximately 300 delegates voted at the 3–5 December conference at Cedarwoods Hotel after earlier delays and the June disbanding of the regional executive.
- The ANC’s national officials retain the final say on the party’s mayoral candidate for the City of Johannesburg, with regional leaders saying mayorship is a national competence.
- Morero remains the serving mayor for now, and the new regional leadership said there would not be “two centres of power” as deployees account to the party.
- Delegates reported allegations of vote-buying during the conference, which Morero condemned as money politics, with claims of luxury bookings and cash in bags that have not been proven.