How senior ANC leaders failed to make it to the new NEC

Ramaphosa allies realised their blunder too late — leading veterans had been left off candidates list

23 December 2022 - 00:02 By MAWANDE AMASHABALALA and ZIMASA MATIWANE

Members of the pro-Ramaphosa group in the ANC made a last-minute but doomed bid at the elective conference to fix a “serious omission” on the list of candidates for the national executive committee (NEC) — the absence on it of several top allies of the president.  ..

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