By Celani Sikhakhane
ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa says the severe decline of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal was a major setback for the organisation in the 29 May general elections.
Ramaphosa was speaking at the party’s six-day National Working Committee meeting on Sunday afternoon in Pietermaritzburg.
The committee meeting started with a three-day meeting of the National Executive Committee.
“As we always say, these elections were a setback, particularly here in KwaZulu-Natal, because we declined massively. We still have a live organisation here, and our objective in coming here is to talk to the leadership of the ANC both at provincial and regional level, as well as branch level. It is a whole effort in doing a proper analysis and review so that the ANC can be renewed,” said Ramaphosa.
He said the party wants the ANC in KZN to be renewed and strengthened so that it can execute the tasks encoded in their manifesto.Ramaphosa says they are visiting all 11 regions in KZN to meet branch members to find a lasting solution.
The NWC’s visit caused panic in many regions, including among provincial leaders who feared that they might be disbanded.
The eThekwini region is one of these as it fought with the province last month after the proposal that it should be disbanded.
Scrolla.africa has obtained the names of leaders who will reportedly replace the eThekwini regional leadership if the provincial proposal passes muster at the NWC. Other regions are also going to make their input on how the ANC could be saved in KZN, and give reasons for its dramatic decline to 17%.
ANC provincial chairperson Siboniso Duma says the national leadership spent six days – three with the NEC and another three days with the NWC – looking at the contributing factors that led to the decline of the organisation in the province.
He said they have only 16 months left before the local government elections, so they want to make sure that service delivery is not compromised.
“KwaZulu-Natal is among the biggest ANC provinces, so we must delve deeper and check what the contributing factors were that led us to have a setback in getting only 40% nationally and 17% in the province of KwaZulu-Natal,” Duma explained.
Pictured above: ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa and KZN ANC chairperson Siboniso Duma.
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