Moves to resolve ANC branch meeting disputes
ANC treasurer-general Zweli Mkhize has said Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor was approached to resolve the dispute that led to him and his wife May being prevented from participating in a branch general meeting at his branch in Pietermaritzburg.
Mkhize’s branch is in Willowfontein village, Pietermaritzburg. When Mkhize and his wife earlier this month went to attend the BGM to nominate candidates for the ANC national conference, they found that their names were not on the membership list.
Mkhize yesterday told Independent Media that his branch had lodged an appeal over the issue. Pandor is leading a KwaZulu-Natal dispute resolution team made up of 10 national executive committee (NEC) members. The team is among nine others formed to deal with BGM appeals in various provinces and to decide on how to resolve them.
“The issue has not been resolved. I am expecting Minister Pandor to deal with that issue,” he said, without further explanation.
ANC provincial secretary Super Zuma said KwaZulu-Natal had received about 50 BGM appeals.
“The NEC has also received 50 complaints from KZN, but it has been established that the complaints had been duplicated,” he said
Zuma said his office would institute disciplinary actions against party members who had sabotaged BGMs.
“We have received reports that there are people who were sabotaging BGMs. There are cases where people deployed to convene BGMs would disappear with packages (the register and voters roll) after the BGMs had failed to take place.
“Clearly those deployees are sabotaging the BGMs,” he said.