Deputy secretary general Jesse Duarte ordered that they come to the party headquarters to ‘sit with the registration teams and go over their lists’
In a communique sent to provincial secretaries and provincial coordinators, Duarte ordered that each of them come to the party headquarters at Luthuli House to “sit with the registration teams and go over their lists”.
Secretaries from Gauteng, Limpopo and Western Cape will be at the headquarters on Thursday and on Friday, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Northern Cape secretaries will take their turn at inspecting their council candidates. The elections will happen on 1 November and the IEC may now hold voter registration drives, which will happen on 18 and 19 September. Party candidates may still be registered on 20 and 21 September., to re-run its candidate selection process, which has been at odds with the interim structure.rejected the order saying that because of time constraints this was not possible.
The ANC also failed to pay its IEC deposits for a significant number of its council candidates. This, coupled with the recentby its staff, landed the party in hot water. The party has failed to pay salaries for more than three months and, for the past 18 months, provident funds have not been paid. Staff members are planning to hold a meeting on Wednesday after a meeting with management to discuss their next step, a senior staff member said. want a heightened police presence in areas it has identified as hotspots to try to prevent an escalation of political violence linked to the party’s candidates list.
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