The failure of the ANC to pay staff salaries is continuing to cause ructions — and concerns are mounting that the situation could affect preparations for the party’s national conference in December.
According to staff, the new ANC operating system uses a QR code to scan and verify ID copies of party members to ensure branches reach the quorum to hold these meetings. The QR code is verified at Luthuli House, but since the staff there have not been paid and are on a go-slow strike, or are not working at all, there is no one to verify if the branches have met the quorum.
KZN — which has 136,267 members in good standing — will send 877 voting branch delegates to the upcoming conference. This is the biggest number of all provinces. “The process of holding BGMs is handled at the ANC headquarters. For the conference to sit, it needs a certain number of branches to have sat. Now with this situation , we don’t want to anticipate what possibilities there will be if these staff members are not paid and branches are unable to hold their BGMs. We hope these matters will be resolved as soon as possible,” Mkhize said.
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