ANC’s Rubusana region backs fraudster Faku for NEC spot

The ANC Dr WB Rubusana region wants convicted fraudster and former Buffalo City Metro mayor Zukisa Faku, who left her position as an ANC MP under a cloud, to be elected to the party’s highest decisionmaking body, the national executive committee (NEC).

The regional executive committee announced on Wednesday it had resolved to lobby its branches to rally behind Faku and former ANC provincial spokesperson Phakamisa Hobongwana to ensure that they make the cut for the NEC.

The region confirmed its support for President Cyril Ramaphosa’s second-term bid and provincial chair Oscar Mabuyane’s battle for the position of deputy president.

Branch nominations got under way this week in preparation for the national elective conference in December.

With 50 branches and 22,000 members, Rubusana is the second-biggest region in the province after OR Tambo.

In 2016, Faku was sentenced to three years’ house arrest and community service at a Cambridge old age home.

She was convicted on nine counts of fraud after she was found to have misused a municipal credit card during overseas trips. She stepped down from her position as an ANC MP in 2019 after the fraud conviction sparked controversy.