Phosa bid to block Mpumalanga ANC

ANC presidential candidate Mathews Phosa has demanded that the ANC exclude delegates from Mpumalanga from participating in the party’s December elective conference.

Phosa‚ via his campaign manager Ronalo Malomane‚ has demanded in a lawyer’s letter sent to the ANC leadership that the outcomes of branch general meetings and the bi-annual general meetings of the province, as well as the provincial general council, be nullified.

The letter‚ addressed to ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe‚ demanded that “the nominations of ‘unity’ as a candidate be rescinded and nullified [and] steps be taken to ensure that voting at the national conference shall be by open ballot or any other method which ensures that ANC members are not unlawfully disenfranchised or misrepresented”.

It also asks that “no delegates from the affected branches‚ alternatively from the Mpumalanga province‚ shall be allowed to attend”.