Mon May 20 06:07:12 SAST 2013
Mon May 20 06:07:12 SAST 2013

ANC PEC takes over region

Aug 8, 2012 | Abongile Mgaqelwa and Mphumzi Zuzile | 3 comments

THE ANC's provincial executive committee (PEC) has taken control of the OR Tambo region in Eastern Cape following the collapse of its elective conference.

The conference, held on Monday, was called off minutes before the announcements of the results of a contest for the regional chairmanship between Thandekile Sabisa, from the pro-change faction, and William Ngozi, a strong supporter of President Jacob Zuma's second-term bid.

The PEC said the results were not credible after they found 10 more ballots than the registered number of delegates. It is understood Sabisa won the contest by one vote.

This decision led to the conference ending abruptly after a verbal showdown between PEC members and delegates.

ANC provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane said the leadership was hamstrung as it could not release election results "that were not credible". He said, however, that the conference has been adjourned and not abandoned.

"The PEC will be in charge of the OR Tambo office until a decision has been taken on the way forward. We are currently doing an investigation to get to the bottom of what actually transpired. We are investigating how the conference had more votes than credentials adopted by the conference."

This decision has infuriated the regional ANC Youth League, which came out with guns blazing yesterday against what it termed "orchestrated thuggery" by the PEC.

"We are perplexed and angry as this has shown their (PEC) disregard for the will of the people. We want to put it on record that this has been a very well-orchestrated thuggery by the PEC.

"Our reasoning for that is that since day one the province has been running all the preparations, sidelining the region ..." said ANCYL regional secretary Ndumiso Sapepa.

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Aug 9, 2012

amaNtuli

Who will be the next ANC leader??
You can vote here: www.faceof.it !!!!!
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Aug 10, 2012

ProgressiveAfricanDemocrat

How can the PEC do an investigation of what actually happened when it is right at the heart of the problem? First they disqualified about 100 legitimate branches because they realised that they did not support a Jacob Zuma second term. And then they allowed ghost branches to send delegates to the conference. seeing that the "scond termers" were still not going to win they decided not to announce the election results. This is the same strategy that was used in Freistata and Mpumalanga to get Ace Magashule and David Mabuza re-elected ANC chairmen. It is up to ANC branches to respond to these blatantly arrogant and undemocratic practices. No help is going to come from Gwede Mantashe who is also mortfied about Mangaung. One thing is clear, the decision to not bring forward nominations for Mangaung was taken to provide space and time for despicable things like this. The ANC Policy Conference clearly indicated the there is not enough support for a Jacob Zuma second term. If these people are allowed to get away with things like this, the ANC has got no future.

It uis also clear that nothing is sacred to these Zuma people, not even ANC centenary celebrations which are supposed to be celebrated by all ANC members and the public. When we go to these meetings to celebrate 100 years of selfless strauggle, we find that the celebrations have now been turned by desperate Zuma supporters, into platforms to mobilise support for second term for Jacob Zuma. not even state functions are spared. Yesterday, I attended the main Women's Day function addressed by Jacob Zuma. Most women and members of the public (just like me) and simply come to celebrate a great day for women but a small group of people tried to turn into a platform to sing Mshini wam, forthunately the crowd did not oblige.

Nobody in their wildest imaginations thought that when they elected Jacob Zuma and Gwede Mantashe as ANC leaders, a few years later they would be denied the democratic right to remove them, with every trick in the book being used in order to cling to power. Maqabane, it is time to be strong and get rid of the dictatorship. It is time to save the ANC and South Africa from this shameless dictatorship. Polokwana, with the benefit of hindsight, was big mistake and the ANC has to correct itself.
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Aug 13, 2012

pschy

Cmr PAD, we have resolved in The NGC in Durban 2010 that the NEC members must also undergo Political Education but up to now nothing is happening. What happened at OR Thambo is gross misconduct and Thuggery by the PEC. I agree with u, the PEC cannot conduct investigations while they were administering Conference. It's is true, they are part of the problem. These leaders cannot perform simple administrative duties to conclude conference buziness because what they have in mind is to apply these foreign tendencies to our glorious movement. Reason: Lack of Political Education!!! I advise all ANC branches in the OR Tambo Region who have the same vision about our organization and our country to start putting pen to paper in grieviance to the conduct of the PEC. Remember the Sun City Connference. It was difficult but at the end someone in the NEC had to listen to us because people started to feel that they were standing on shaky grounds.
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