On Friday secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said while a few delegates might discuss this informally, “there is no voting here”.
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Zuma is serving his second and final five year-term of office.
“Even if they beg me I won’t stand”, he said.
His colleague ANC North West chairman, Supra Mahumapelo, agreed with him saying “There are mischievous people, there are people who bring their own agendas in the ANC and they like labelling people.”
ANCWL president and social development minister Bathabile Dlamini said the league wants a 50/50 gender representation in almost all ANC structures.
A drastic drop in paid-up members, corruption and how to tackle it, and President Jacob Zuma’s decision to not stand for another term as party leader dominated the African National Congress’s national general council this weekend.
In 2010 NGC, the ANCYL was another factor, the party had “to deal with discipline”.
“Some of the negative tendencies include systematic sowing of divisions”.
“The membership has dropped because of gate-keeping, therefore depriving the ANC of new members”, Zuma said.
“Factionalism is a political problem, it is part of any political system, ” Mantashe told reporters near Johannesburg.
Mthembu said referring to the organisational report as a one-man document was an attempt to tarnish Mantashe’s name as the report was discussed in both the NEC and the national working committee meetings.
Meanwhile, Zuma said the ANC wants proper vetting processes of all employees as well as those appointed in state entities as another way of fighting corruption. This, it says, so they can be the face of campaigns in communities they work in.
“The ANC is very anxious about the local elections”.
“ANC needs to win back our traditional supporters who are dissatisfied with us ahead of elections”, said Zuma.
She said branches played the most critical role in the party.
“The ANC disagrees with the double standards and selective actions of the global Criminal Court”.
The policy congress, often been described as “festivals of ideas”, comes at a time South Africa is at a crossroads, as the ruling party is accused of corruption, while the economy stutters.
“If you are given a tender, you will build that school which you have been assigned to do”.
These security companies, according to Mapisa-Nqakula, are based overseas and employ undocumented people.
It’s been recommended that more of the official languages be taught to South Africans as the party grapples with creating cohesion.
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But the ANC NGC is not backing down – defiant in the decision that grade one to nine pupils will sit for the assessments. “And this is not an issue in this conference, we are here to evaluating how we fared in implementing policies and look at what we can do”, Zuma said. “We can not stop such an important intervention in basic education”, said Pandor.
