ANC nominations on Monday?
2007-12-17 12:45
Polokwane - The African National Congress's Polokwane conference may deal with nominations for the party presidency late on Monday, according to a senior party official.
"We believe the process will actually unfold today, late," head of the presidency Smuts Ngonyama told journalists at noon on Monday.
The nomination process is expected to result in a head-on clash for the top post between party president Thabo Mbeki and his deputy Jacob Zuma, the only two people whose names have emerged in provincial pre-conference nomination conferences.
Nominations for president and the other top six officials in the party were supposed to be dealt with in a session late on Sunday night, but the conference broke early.
Ngonyama said the early closure was to allow the conference steering committee to deal with accreditation of delegates, and to allow it to look at "the business of conference on many fronts".
On Sunday the conference was virtually ungovernable at times, as Zuma supporters booed party chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota, an Mbeki ally.
- SAPA