Some ANC branches want Bheki Cele
Some ANC branches in KwaZulu-Natal have indicated they want the country’s axed police commissioner Bheki Cele to lead the party.
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The ANC’s provincial secretary Sihle Zikalala said: “Some of our branches, they’ve said to us they are nominating his name and we’ve said we’ve got no problem. There is nothing that precludes his nomination.”
However, he rejected recent media reports claiming that Cele was campaigning for the job.
“Many people have written in newspapers saying that Bheki Cele is running a campaign against President Zuma. There is no such campaign.”
He said that he had been to various branches with Cele and had not witnessed him doing any campaigning. He said that no evidence of Cele conducting a campaign had been forthcoming.
President Jacob Zuma fired General Bheki Cele because of role in the awarding of a R1.7 billion contract for police accommodation.
The former national police commissioner is engaged in a court battle to attempt to get his job back after he was dismissed in June.
Zikalala said the African National Congress was not “fixated or obsessed” with the selection of the leaders at the party’s 53rd national conference in Mangaung in December.
The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal would hold its nominating conference on November 24.
Zikalala said branch delegates would then consolidate nominations for the party’s national conference.
The province would send 974 branch delegates, elected by the party’s 828 branches in the province, to the nominating event.
He said although the party had hoped to achieve an audited membership of 350,000 before the nomination process, he was satisfied with the current 331,020 ANC members in the province.
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Papage
Once appointed Zuma will give him his job back, to prtect himself from embarasment in Mangaung. watch the spaceReport Abuse
Pointman
Okay - and Mina Moo and Ompah Deedle for deputy. If the voters are muppets, don't expect the politicians to be Einsteins.Report Abuse
RobinH
Good Grief!!! How stupid can people be?Report Abuse
MmaSeshego
are they serious? Isn't there somebody else they can choose who was not in any way involved in anything shadyReport Abuse
Dzel
Bheki Cele?President of South Africa?
Do branches apply their minds when it comes to leadership races, do they even understand the duties and responsibilities a president has?
Ja nee... I think names get picked out of a hat.
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oldlady12
Dzel, and in that hat are only the same names over and over again. Are there honestly no new dynamic leaders within the ANC?Report Abuse
MommaC
LOLThat would make parliamentary debate interesting.
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VENDALIOUS
He looks exactly like JEEPERS CREEPERS................Report Abuse
Dandan
eeeeeeeeish these people will go to Mongaung and spoil ballot papers please Sihle Zikalala give these people some crash course tjooooo we tought we have votes yet are spoiledReport Abuse
!!Sinudeity!!
Proof, ANC branches are on TIK.Report Abuse
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