The ANC’s leadership issues and preferred candidates to lead the party are among a number of issues to be discussed during the upcoming three-day KwaZulu-Natal provincial general council to be held in Empangeni from Friday.
The ANC said since other structures of the movement including the Youth League and Women’s League have pronounced their preferred candidates to lead the ANC from December‚ some of the 1400 KZN delegates may use the platform to advance that view.
“Yes‚ there will be some perhaps who will use the platform to reflect on the type of leadership‚” said ANC spokesman Mdumiseni Ntuli post a media briefing on Wednesday.
He however‚ reiterated provincial secretary Super Zuma’s assertions that the PGC will mainly be about the evaluation the work of the provincial executive committee since its election two years ago.
“Also‚ it will be a platform for the province to consolidate its perspective towards the 5th national policy conference‚” he said.
Zuma said the discussion on leadership has been opened by the party‚ but insisted that the PGC has more pressing issues on the agenda ahead of the national policy conference.
The ANC’s national policy conference will be held in Johannesburg from June 30 to July 5.
At 508‚ the province of KwaZulu-Natal‚ the ANC’s largest region‚ will be sending the biggest number of delegates to the national policy conference.
Ntuli said some of the issues on the agenda will be looking to restructure the architecture of the ANC.
He said KwaZulu-Natal would also discuss the idea of increasing the number of its top six officials to eight.
It is understood that the province needs more voices and more function officials and that this could be achieved by having two deputy presidents and two deputy secretaries-general.
“The aim would be to have more fulltime officials doing the organisation work rather than officials being deployed to government. For example one deputy president can be in cabinet and one serving the organisation fully‚” he said.
Ntuli said the same would apply to DSGs where one deputy would do the evaluation in the organisation while another would head campaigns.
Zuma said they are not expecting divergent views from those ANC members still aggrieved by the outcome of the 2015 provincial conference.
“Branches may discuss issues but the PGC must not be elevated to disunity‚” he said.
KZN ANC to discuss party leadership and increasing top six officials to eight
The ANC’s leadership issues and preferred candidates to lead the party are among a number of issues to be discussed during the upcoming three-day KwaZulu-Natal provincial general council to be held in Empangeni from Friday.
The ANC said since other structures of the movement including the Youth League and Women’s League have pronounced their preferred candidates to lead the ANC from December‚ some of the 1400 KZN delegates may use the platform to advance that view.
“Yes‚ there will be some perhaps who will use the platform to reflect on the type of leadership‚” said ANC spokesman Mdumiseni Ntuli post a media briefing on Wednesday.
He however‚ reiterated provincial secretary Super Zuma’s assertions that the PGC will mainly be about the evaluation the work of the provincial executive committee since its election two years ago.
“Also‚ it will be a platform for the province to consolidate its perspective towards the 5th national policy conference‚” he said.
Zuma said the discussion on leadership has been opened by the party‚ but insisted that the PGC has more pressing issues on the agenda ahead of the national policy conference.
The ANC’s national policy conference will be held in Johannesburg from June 30 to July 5.
At 508‚ the province of KwaZulu-Natal‚ the ANC’s largest region‚ will be sending the biggest number of delegates to the national policy conference.
Ntuli said some of the issues on the agenda will be looking to restructure the architecture of the ANC.
He said KwaZulu-Natal would also discuss the idea of increasing the number of its top six officials to eight.
It is understood that the province needs more voices and more function officials and that this could be achieved by having two deputy presidents and two deputy secretaries-general.
“The aim would be to have more fulltime officials doing the organisation work rather than officials being deployed to government. For example one deputy president can be in cabinet and one serving the organisation fully‚” he said.
Ntuli said the same would apply to DSGs where one deputy would do the evaluation in the organisation while another would head campaigns.
Zuma said they are not expecting divergent views from those ANC members still aggrieved by the outcome of the 2015 provincial conference.
“Branches may discuss issues but the PGC must not be elevated to disunity‚” he said.
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