‘Nasrec outcome will stand’

The outcome of the ANC’s Nasrec conference that elected Cyril Ramaphosa as the party’s president stands‚ and nobody will succeed in challenging it.

Responding to a Sunday Times report that former president Jacob Zuma had held a secret meeting in Durban last week with ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule‚ former North West premier Supra Mahumapelo‚ ANC Women’s League secretary-general Meokgo Matuba and ANC Youth League KwaZulu-Natal secretary Thanduxolo Sabelo‚ ANC presidential spokesman Zizi Kodwa said the party would not allow the disruption of its efforts to build unity and renewal of the organisation.

“Nobody‚ outside or inside the ANC, will succeed in changing outcomes of Nasrec‚ they were democratic outcomes.”

Addressing journalists in Johannesburg on Monday‚ Kodwa said the senior party members who were alleged to have been part of the meeting must explain the purpose of their meeting‚ and not the ANC.

“We cannot speak on [their] behalf,” he said.

“If there is an issue about a plot‚ it is people who were in the meeting who can best explain what [it] was all about.”

He said the ANC had not approached the implicated members to seek answers and it was not even sure if the meeting took place.

The Sunday Times published a picture of Zuma‚ Magashule‚ Mahumapelo and Matuba in the hotel foyer, taken after the meeting.

Sunday Times journalist Qaanitah Hunter, who reported the story on Sunday, tweeted a screenshot of a picture of a toy gun‚ sent to her by Matuba.

Kodwa said Matuba was not representing the ANC.

“We will not support any individual who would want to threaten journalists,” he said.

He could not say if the ANC would discipline Matuba.