ANC agrees to hear anti-Zuma findings: report
Deputy president, Cyril Ramaphosa emerged with an early victory at the ANC’s National Policy Conference on Friday, after his supporters defeated a bid by Dlamini-Zuma’s camp to prevent he tabling of a scathing diagnostics report on the party’s problems.
According to a report by the City Press, an intense discussion broke out in the conference plenary on Friday, as Dlamini-Zuma’s camp sought to flex its muscles by ensuring that ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe would be barred from delivering a 10-page organisational diagnostics report.
The report, which placed much of the ANC’s problems on President Jacob Zuma, included topics such as the role of the Guptas; the Cabinet reshuffle; the leaked emails; and the Nkandla scandal.
According to the City Press the decision to allow the report also formed an early proxy battle for the ANC’s succession race, as members aligned themselves with Ramaphosa or Dlamini-Zuma.
Speaking on how the party had failed to find solutions, secretary-general Gwede Mantashe directly cited Nkandla as an example while presenting the diagnostics report.
“One good example is the Constitutional Court judgment on Nkandla. The judgment is, in fact, the conclusion we came to more than three years earlier,” he said.
“However, because it was perceived to be an attempt by some as trying to trap [Zuma] into an admission of guilt, no firm decision could be taken.”
You can read the full story in today’s City Press.
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