ANC says national and provincial leaders will be held accountable for electoral decline

JOHANNESBURG - The ANC says all structures that performed poorly in the last elections will be held accountable, including the national leadership. 
 
Sunday is day two of the ANC’s first ordinary national executive committee meeting at the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg. 

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The party’s leaders are meeting to decide on whether to disband, reconfigure or take no action against its Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal branches. 
 
The ANC lost its majority in the two provinces, leading to it forming multiparty coalition governments. 
 
There has been murmurs within the NEC that Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal are being scapegoated for the party’s overall electoral decline. 
 
At a recent rally, ANC KZN secretary Bheki Mtolo said the party’s national leadership must also be held accountable for dropping from 58 percent of the vote to 40 percent. 
 
ANC national spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri says there will come a time for the national leadership to also account.
 
"The National Executive Committee itself, in the report that will be presented, will be giving an exposition of how we have reflected on our own failings at a national level but because of our own failings at national level it doesn’t mean the right to look at the performances of the provinces is suspended."
 
The ANC is set to announce a decision on the two provinces later on Sunday afternoon.