OPINION: ANC should mitigate dirty tricks before December Conference

In December 2022, the ANC will hold its 55th National Conference in Nasrec, Johannesburg. At this conference, the ANC will not only adopt the policies it ventilated in July this year. It will also elect its new leadership. It is this new leadership that will take the ANC to the much anticipated 2024 general election.

Coincidentally, it was at the same venue [Nasrec] where the current and outgoing leadership was elected in December 2017. In a way, the venue should serve as a reminder of the mandate that was given to the current leadership by the ANC delegates. Importantly, meeting at this venue should also give the outgoing leadership an opportunity to reflect on how they have individually and collectively served the ANC.

As the leadership race gains momentum and as the day of the National Conference comes closer, a few developments have become discernible. One of them is that each candidate has started to do anything and everything to increase his or her chances to emerge victorious.

By Bheki Mngomezulu.

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