When is the anc elective conference 2017

ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule says that the political environment in KwaZulu-Natal is conducive to host regional and provincial conferences.

The party hopes that the dispute resolution committee will help avoid damning court findings against it, which ultimately destabilises the organisation. Ipid says its concerned that a police supplier who is under investigation would meet with police generals. Eyewitness News has obtained surveillance of this meeting in Pretoria late last year which police management has refused to answer questions about.

The future of the ANC is not assured, and even if it survives this conference, it will remain a deeply fractured organisation. There is no leader or group of people with a vision that unifies its members or attracts the enthusiasm of ordinary citizens. None of these evokes a sense of excitement that once surrounded the ANC. But there are many who are hoping that this gloomy prognosis is proved wrong.

South African business leaders long for stability, and many believe the conference may deliver a level of political certainty that would make this possible. Many ANC veterans and other well-meaning citizens believe that if Cyril Ramaphosa, current deputy president of the ANC and the country, were to be elected, the fortunes of the country could be turned around.

Some, like dismissed finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, even suggest that Ramaphosa, if elected ANC president, would be able to remove Zuma as state president, but that is not easy to do. What all those who vest so much in Ramaphosa ignore is that Zuma remains president of the country and is impervious to a sense of honour. When Thabo Mbeki, the second post-apartheid president of South Africa, lost the support of the ANC leadership, he resigned as state president.

But Zuma fears prosecution for fraud and other crimes. It may also be that if Ramaphosa is elected, he will not have a substantial majority to back such actions. But there are doubts about the legality of such a deal.

Many who respect the law and the constitution do not want to allow Zuma to hold onto his ill-gotten gains or be exempted from prosecution. South Africans want a democratic state, run on the basis of the existing constitution. But South African democracy cannot be restored through deals behind closed doors. It requires re-empowering the citizenry, who have been so badly betrayed. That may be a difficult task, entailing listening to one another in order to rebuild democratic organisation.

That will not be achieved overnight. Political instability remains a real possibility. He came across as delusional and self-indulgent. Changing the South African system to allow for direct election would require the country to look carefully at how a directly elected president should be held accountable to parliament. This is because the person chosen to lead the governing party since , has gone on to become president. Accusations against South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa appear to be an example of the tried-and-tested trick to discredit him and his political campaign to become the next president.

A loss would see it further divided and weakened ahead of the elections.