The African National Congress (ANC) members in the Mangaung region earlier on Monday convened in numbers at the ANC provincial office, Kaizer Sebothelo House in Bloemfontein, in retaliation for the regional conference that was postponed for the second time.
The initial conference was held last month and was nullified due to alleged voting irregularities.
Four extra ballot papers were discovered after the regional conference.
Branch executive member, Charles Mgwadleka, says this has a negative impact as the conference is where candidates’ names for Local Government Elections will emerge.
The national leadership had scheduled a re-run of the conference for May 29-30, serving as the party’s final conference ahead of the 2026 local government elections.
Mgwadleka says, “All conferences of the ANC have experienced different problems but extra voters was never a reason to nullify a conference but over and above we want to emphasis that it is wrong for an individual to decide to nullify a conference, a conference can only be nullified by the delegates themselves the constitution dictates as such but in this one, only one individual who has been deployed by the NEC, decided to nullify a conference.” – Reporting by Abigail Visagie
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