A postponement of the party’s internal processes gives President Cyril Ramaphosa breathing space and dents the attempts to move against his control of the ANC
The party has decided to curtail all its large meetings, including those of branch and regional structures, in line with the ban on meetings with more than 100 people that has been implemented as part of theThe decision also affects the midterm national general council meeting at the end of July, which has been postponed until further notice.
The decision is something of a setback to Ramaphosa’s opponents in the ANC, who had been hoping to stage a fightback at the conferences, particularly in provinces in which they had lost ground since the. That conference, in Nasrec outside Johannesburg, saw Ramaphosa win the leadership of the party from a faction seen to be loyal to former president Jacob Zuma.
He said branch general meetings and regional and provincial conferences had been postponed by three months, as was the term of office of the interim structures running the ANC in the 17 regions and three provinces.
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