The situation is promising to get worse in future, as indications are that a future president would be lucky to finish the first term in office. Read the full opinion📱
President Cyril Ramaphosa addressing supporters at the ANC manifesto launch in Church Square, Pretoria, 27 September 2021. Picture: Jacques Nellesat Nasrec in 2017 was tense because it was the first time that the party allowed public campaigning by candidates – albeit without rules.
Regional leaders played active roles in circulating slates to branches that would rubber-stamp the names from the top. At the time, you would know who the president and his deputy would be and the deputy would automatically become the successor to the president.The party president’s term of office was unlimited as is still the case, but it has become a new tradition that the incumbent should not stay in office beyond two terms.
In South Africa, it’s different. Mbeki was removed by an opposing faction desperate to grab the levers of state power from him. Mbeki was not wrong to seek a third term as ANC president as that was in line with the party tradition of unlimited terms.But the timing was not good to do that because the internal conspiracy against him was massive. False accusations that Mbeki intended to change the constitution to allow him a third term as head of state were made, although that was impossible.
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