ANC NWC due to meet with KZN and Gauteng amid calls for structures to be dissolved

JOHANNESBURG - The African National Congress (ANC)'s national working committee (NWC) is due to meet with its provincial executives in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and Gauteng on the back of some continued calls for them to be dissolved.

An invite from Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula says the meeting set for Monday is compulsory, with an agenda set to be shared later. 

Both provinces performed poorly and the party only managed to garner 17% of the KZN vote during the May general elections. 

There are also some fears that its current crop of leaders is not good enough to take on former party president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party. 

The meeting is set to provide provincial executive committees (PECs) from both Gauteng and KZN feedback on recent assessments of their performances in the elections. 

It does this in the face of fierce lobbying from some, within the ANC in KZN for the provincial leadership to be dissolved. 

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And while the ANC is at pains to avoid using the word disband, some have told Eyewitness News KZN cannot continue without intervention, saying leaders are too inadequate to fend off the MK Party.

The counter-narrative to this view has questioned why the national executive committee (NEC) should be allowed to continue as it only got 40% at the polls.

But one ANC official said using this excuse would leave the party paralysed, ultimately sinking it even further.