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ANC undersecretary general Jessie Duarte has dismissed a recently released 2022 election list featuring her as general secretary as “garbage.”
The list, by a grouping calling itself the “radical economic transformation” (RET), is ahead of the mid-term review conference of the ANC, the national general council (NGC), and seeks to replace the current leadership.
It also comes two years before the 55th elective conference that is expected to be held in 2022.
The RET list features current Secretary General Ace Magashule as President, former President Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane as Vice President and former North West Prime Minister Supra Mahumapelo as National President.
Tony Yengeni also appears on the board as general treasurer.
“This is nonsense,” Duarte said. “I am not willing to dignify this with interviews.
“Stop probing, only the branches of the ANC have the right to choose. Slates of any kind are only used to sow divisions ”.
Magashule also distanced himself from the board in a statement released by the ANC on Saturday morning. ANC spokeswoman Dakota Legoete said everyone on the board had distanced themselves, especially Duarte and Magashule.
“This can only be the work of the wedge drivers who enjoy seeing a divided ANC,” Legoete said.
He said that Duarte and Magashule “have warned divisive elements, both inside and outside the ANC, to refrain from using the names of ANC leaders in their factional and divisive agenda.”
Although the NGC is not an elective conference and deals only with politics, the list suggests that current ANC leaders Cyril Ramaphosa, his deputy David Mabuza, and national president Gwede Mantashe will be attacked in the generally heated council.
The list also appears to show that the contest before the 2022 elective conference could start early.
“It is worth noting that the process towards the 2022 national conference has not even begun,” Dakota said. “Consequently, the branches and other structures of the ANC have not even had a chance to discuss the preparations for 2022.”
He said that this board was an “alien trend” that had to be “nipped in the bud.”
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