Limpopo nominates Motlanthe for ANC president
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The Limpopo ANC nominated Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe for the ANC presidency at its provincial conference on Thursday.
Motlanthe won with 268 votes, while President Jacob Zuma secured seven.
A small group of delegates chanted in celebration: "We don't like Zuma, he fired ANCYL [ANC Youth League] president Julius Malema".
Malema hails from Seshego in Limpopo.
Current ANC treasurer Mathews Phosa was nominated for the deputy presidency and Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula to take over from Gwede Mantashe as secretary general.
Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale was nominated for treasurer, North West premier Thandi Modise for national chairwoman and Thenjiwe Mtintso -- a former deputy secretary for the ANC -- was again nominated for that position.
The media was told to leave the conference shortly after the nominations were announced.
Supporters of Motlanthe started the nomination conference in Polokwane on Thursday morning, after a rival group walked out claiming bogus delegates had been deployed to vote.
Zuma supporters walked out just after 6am and were not participating in the nomination process to elect the preferred top six candidates.
Zuma supporters claimed the conference did not verify the credibility of delegates.
Some delegates, who did not want to be named, complained that when they went to register, they discovered that unknown delegates had signed under their names and collected accreditation.
The conference was delayed on Wednesday because of a meeting between national executive committee [NEC] members and provincial executive members over lingering disputes.
On Wednesday evening, two men were arrested when people tried to force their way into the ANC's nomination conference, Limpopo police said. The conference was postponed on Friday night when a group wearing T-shirts with President Jacob Zuma's face printed on them disrupted proceedings, forcing delegates to flee the venue, spokesman Makonde Mathivha said at the time.
The ANC's NEC decided on Monday to allow Limpopo, along with the Western Cape more time to conclude their nomination conferences.
The Western Cape ANC also nominated Motlanthe on Thursday morning.
The official deadline for the provincial nominations was originally November 30.
The provincial nomination conference allows ANC members to nominate their preferred candidates for the party's leadership, to be elected at the national conference in Mangaung later this month.
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Posted 165 days agoSo they voted for Mothlanthe for the wrong reason.
They should have chanted ''Away with useless Zuma - We want good leadership''
proud-mbongwa
proud-mbongwa
Posted 165 days agoGanonNhubunga
proud-mbongwa
Why wait so long? i will it must be now.Lol.
PSG
Long time bud.
proud-mbongwa
The son of the soil if fine Mr PSG and hope you well on your side. We have been missing each other,when i login you logout visa versa bra.
Patsekg
"Well done Limpompo anyone who disagree can go and hang himself/herself to the nearest tree".
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Not so fast Proud-mbongwa, Motlanthe was only voted by 268 deligates, of which among them there are those who did not qualify to take part but were fraudulantly bussed in to vote anyway. Limpopo will send 500 deligates to Mangaung, it does not mean if you did not take part in that nomination conference therefore you are no longer going to Mangaung. If you can make your own calculations, you will find that out of 500 deligates that will be going to Mangaung, Motlanthe only received 268 votes which includes those that will not go to Mangaung but were allowed into the conference under controvertial circumstances. The other number which is 232 plus those that were refused entrance because their accreditations had been fraudulantly given to the boggers deligates, make up the total number of what Zuma would have got if they did not decide to boycott the conference. I am just looking at the numbers and try to apply my mind based on that.
Mangqeshane
PSG
I'll be camping outside the conference venue with pain killers @ R10 a tablet :-).
Patsekg
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This is axactely what happened when Castle Mathale won the chairmanship of the ANC in Limpopo a year ago, some of the deligates who were sent by their branches to vote for Joe Phaahla were refused entrance into the conference and were told that they had already casted their votes, when it was actually some rented boggers deligates who voted on their behalf without their knowledge. This same thing has repeated itself again, yet the media is turning a blind eye because it is Motlanthe who has won the nomination. In other provinces where Zuma has won convincingly, the media is casting the impression that he won under the controversial circumstances. Motlanthe's win in Limpopo is also controvertial, as half of the deligates have walked out of that conference after realising that there was no verification of deligates, meaning that the rented crowd was going to allowed to vote as well to boost Motlanthe's chances. The big question now is, if Limpopo Province is going to send 500 deligates to Mangaung, and Motlanthe was nominated by 268 deligates who include those that were brought in fraudulantly, where is the other 232 deligates? As usual, the media is not going to talk about that, because it is their man who has won the nomination. Let me remind people that Motlanthe's win in Limpopo is meaningless. My reason being that when they go to Mangaung, all the 232 deligates that did not take part in this conference are also going to take part. So if you are wise enough, you can check the difference between the numbers and tell me if Motlanthe has indeed won convincingly. Again you must also take into account that these so called boggers deligates that were rented to vote for him now will never go to Mangaung, as it is only those that were voted by their branches that will go there. So for me really, Motlanthe's win is meaningless for now.