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The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal will begin to formally lobby other structures to stand behind Zweli Mkhize for president of the ruling party.

The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal is set to defy an instruction by former president Kgalema Motlanthe for the province to desist from announcing their preferred candidates by publicly supporting former health minister Zweli Mkhize.

On Wednesday, Business Day wrote that Godongwana would raise his hand for the position of ANC treasurer-general at the party’s December conference to be held in Nasrec, Johannesburg.

An Amathole district municipality special council meeting held to elect a new troika on Thursday descended into chaos after councillors of opposition parties questioned its legality. The bone of contention was the late issuing of the notice for the meeting without an agenda, which, according to council rules, must be done 48 hours before the meeting.

In less than a week the troubled Amathole district municipality (ADM) will have a new political leadership.

The ANC Youth League and the EFF in the Alfred Nzo district have come out guns blazing in their condemnation of the provincial ANC’s move to deploy controversial former mayor Sixolile Mehlomakhulu as the new council speaker. Mehlomakhulu, a former ANC regional chair in the district, was sworn in on Tuesday, replacing Simthembile Kulu, who died in a car crash in December.

The ANC provincial executive committee in KwaZulu-Natal has assured regional party leaders who visited former president Jacob Zuma that they have nothing against the retired leader.

The long-anticipated Buffalo City Metro's Dr WB Rubusana ANC regional elective conference scheduled for this weekend faces another hurdle, with threats of legal action if it does sit and elect new leadership. Despite an interim court interdict already hovering over the BCM's elective conference, the region's interim leadership is forging ahead with plans to have the much-anticipated conference this weekend, before the matter is even back in court on May 31.

The newly elected Eastern Cape ANC provincial executive committee, inherits an organisation fraught with “stubborn” divisions, with a collapse of organisational discipline and a decline in ethics, values and traditions of the movement. This was the message delivered by newly elected provincial secretary Lulama Ngcukayitobi when he tabled his organisational report, behind closed doors, at the rather tense ninth ANC provincial elective conference held in East London over the past four days.

Graft charges against suspended Amathole regional secretary Teris Ntutu have been set aside by the Mthatha High Court, paving the way for him to contest the upcoming ANC provincial elective conference. This was after Mthatha High Court Judge Buyiswa Majiki, on Friday, declined to reinstate the charges against him and his other co-accused, on the basis that the summons to have the case reinstated, as well as the return of service, had not been signed by Director of Public Prosecution Barry Mad...