Cape Town – The African National Congress (ANC) has postponed its National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, originally scheduled for this weekend, and will now meet in early January to discuss the future of the party’s Provincial Executive Committees (PECs) in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.
This decision follows a meeting of the ANC’s National Working Committee (NWC) on Gauteng’s East Rand, where party leaders examined the decline in support in Gauteng.
According to The Citizen, Panyaza Lesufi’s future as the leader of the ANC Gauteng was uncertain as the NWC discussed dissolving the provincial executive committee (PEC).
The NWC was dissatisfied with the poor electoral performance in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, where support had significantly dropped since the 2019 elections.
Lesufi and his committee were summoned to explain, and there were discussions about replacing the PEC with an interim task team, the report said.
Several options, including disbanding the PECs, leaving them unchanged, or strengthening them, were considered, SABC News reported.
ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula said that the final decision will be made after the NEC meeting in January, citing scheduling conflicts with state visits and other party events.
“No structures disbanded, all matters will be considered, and the final decision will be taken in January next year. We would have met this week on our final NEC meeting but we have two state visits that are taking place back to back. We also have the SACP National Congress and we also have the SASCO Congress, so it’s not going to give us adequate time to get the NEC to sit post the 16th and consider the matters. So we have given ourselves that time at the beginning of the year to deal with the issues to bring them to finality,” Mbalula sad, according to the report.
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Compiled by Betha Madhomu
