Zuma to talk to delegates, media
20/12/2007 09:45  - (SA)  

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Polokwane - Newly-elected ANC president Jacob Zuma will address delegates at the ANC's national conference for the first time on Thursday.

Afterwards he is expected to speak to the media, after maintaining a vow of silence, despite pleas from desperate journalists in Polokwane on Wednesday for "just one comment".

Wednesday also saw conference delegates voting for the remaining 80 positions on the national executive committee (NEC), and going into commissions for policy discussions.

The ANC's electoral commission will announce the NEC list on Thursday morning.

Mbeki met Zuma for discussions on the future of the ANC. Party spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said they continued to relate "in the same old way".

He also dismissed a suggestion that Mbeki might now call a general election ahead of the next scheduled poll in 2009.

Both the ANC Youth League and the SA Communist Party - two of Zuma's largest support bases - congratulated him on his victory.

The league also said it would not ask Mbeki to step down as the country's president before 2009. ANCYL President Fikile Mbalula also said "no major deviations" were expected from the resolutions the ANC had made at its policy conference in June - and those that would emerge from the Polokwane conference.

Congress of SA Trade Unions secretary-general Zwelinzima Vavi said suggestions that the ANC alliance supported Zuma so it could have socialist policies implemented in the country were untrue.

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