THE ANC continues to worry about the new tendency that has corrupted its electoral process in that members are able to manipulate the outcome.

It states that leadership elections are fraught with problems like suppressing views of members through a culture of slates that are developed in secret caucuses and forced down the throats of members in chaotic branch general meetings.

This discussion will also take place at the policy conference and will be helpful as ANC is approaching its elective conference in Magaung in December.

Already there are members who support President Jacob Zuma for a second term, while others want his deputy Kgalema Motlanthe to replace him.

So far Motlanthe, secretary-general Gwede Mantashe and chairman Baleka Mbete have spoken against leaders being elected through slates.

An ANC document proposes that the Mangaung conference should signal a decisive break with the factionalisation of leadership contests in the party.

"It not only undermines the discipline of the core, but also our ability to act and lead as a movement."

It also proposes rules for lobbying in the ANC for the leadership race.

It says democratic processes of influencing and being influenced by others to lobby for a candidate should happen in the formal structures of the ANC.

"However, no structure outside the ANC has the right to nominate or lobby for any candidate."

It wants wrongful lobbying practices to be added as acts of misconduct in the ANC electoral rules.