The ‘victories’ at this Nasrec edition may well turn into future losses for the party.
Late on Tuesday morning last week, as the ANC elective conference was running out of time, the newly elected ANC secretary-general channelled his inner drill sergeant, his voice booming over the Nasrec loudspeaker system.
Unprecedented for a national ANC conference, the gathering of over 4,000 delegates was adjourned to 5 January 2023 to meet in hybrid format from the provinces. No conference declaration was taken, no policy commission reports or resolutions adopted. It almost seemed that once the winning Top Seven officials had been announced – President Cyril Ramaphosa and his side took five of these top posts – interest in the conference was just about done and dusted.
Ramaphosa got in many from his so-called renewal slate, which was finally released on Tuesday morning just as delegates went to cast their ballots. But political awkwardness ruled: several Cabinet ministers are gone from the NEC, which is the governing party’s highest decision-making structure between conferences.
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