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A task team headed by former home affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has recommended that 125 ANC councillors undergo a fresh selection process and resign should they not be re-nominated as candidates by the party's branches.

The team was appointed by the party's national executive committee (NEC) to investigate allegations of irregularities and manipulation of ANC candidate lists for local government elections last year.

Should the ANC accept recommendations that the councillors be fired, a number of by-elections could be held.

The team's report was presented at the NEC meeting, that started on Friday at St Georges Hotel, south of Pretoria.

The 125 were pointed out country-wide where the team found there had been "gross violation of the guidelines, internal nomination and selection process".

"The disputes that were investigated by the task team are from 419 wards. These cover matters pertaining to alleged irregularities, manipulations as well as organisational matters. Of the 419 the task team has recommended that in 125 wards ANC processes should be redone.

"Where the incumbent councillor is nominated again through such a process they should remain in office. Where the incumbent councillor is not re-nominated through the process, it is recommend that (they) be asked to resign and a by-election be held," said the report.

The report warned that if the ANC failed to follow the recommendations, the party's leadership risked being seen to be endorsing such wrongful acts.

Most damning in the report is the finding that some councillors were not even ANC members at the time of their nomination as candidates.

"The task team came across instances of candidates only joining the ANC after being nominated. In certain instances the candidates, now incumbent councillors, have shockingly little knowledge of the ANC.

The investigation came after the ANC received complaints from structures about manipulation of lists by either local, regional or provincial leaders.

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Nov 19, 2012

TLekota

Send them packing they useless. But more divisions
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Nov 19, 2012

Pointman

How is this possible - with so many ANC cadres fighting with each other to get a job, it should not be possible for outsiders to fraudulently get on the list. Maybe this is a good old fashioned witch hunt?
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Nov 19, 2012

MommaC

The ANC is worse than Cope! They can't even organise a list of members without something fishy going on. I couldn't believe how they had wrangled this. The people who had their identities stolen and fraudulently put onto the membership list should sue.
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Nov 19, 2012

ancnduntsu

The ANC alwayz goes after small fish. Mshosholozi is a dodgy President but continues to fart in the Onion buildings.
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Nov 19, 2012

Msiphos00

Dlamini-Zuma is supposed to be at AU by now
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Nov 19, 2012

Tsar-Rasputin

I care swear the so called corrupt officials all support the "forces of change", is this findings convenient in order to weaken the challenge to Zuma's second term? Only time will tell!!!
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Nov 19, 2012

Mdala

These issues have killed the ANC and in return ANC should fire these corrupt people period
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Nov 19, 2012

Floccino

Dismiss all of them including Nkandlaville Showerhead illiterate Mshini Wam Zuma. I think they are corrupt because of the brainless Showerhead.
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Nov 19, 2012

Winilen

Almost all ANC councilours are not chosen by the people
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Nov 19, 2012

sosnana

Who are these idiots try to fool because they again want to elect their own people there.
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