Mosebenzi Zwane, an ally of Free State Premier Ace Magashule and also a regional chairman of the ANC in the Free State region of Thabo Mofustunyana, was speaking during a gala dinner on the eve of the Indaba mining conference.
Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane has reportedly said that they all know who the next president of the ANC will be.
Zwane spoke this week at a gala dinner in Johannesburg.
He said all people within the ANC were aware of the next person to take over the reigns of the party from President Jacob Zuma when an elective congress is convened in December 2017.
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“We already know who will be president,” Zwane said, according to BusinessLive
“It’s a done deal, we are not stressing,” he said.
“In January there will be new leadership and policies will remain the same‚” the minister said during a gala dinner boycotted by the Chamber of Mines over his newly revised Mining Charter.
This comes weeks after Mpumalanga ANC chairman David Mabuza had convened a special provincial general council, inviting North West chair Supra Mahumapelo, KZN’s Willies Mchunu, Free State’s Ace Magashule, Gauteng’s Paul Mashatile and in it was preaching unity.
The five chairmen agreed that the ANC will have to sit down and agree on a suitable candidate to take the ANC forward than contestations.
Mabuza had said that if the ANC continues with the contestation the factional way and doesn’t reach leadership consensus he will by “stepping aside” and not accepting the position of deputy president for which the NDZ camp endorsed him.
“We think that there must be a consensus. We must persuade one another so that we avoid a contestation. Remember the two past conferences are a very good experience for all of us because each time there’s a contestation the group that loses would leave the ANC, now that means something is wrong somewhere,” Mabuza told Journalist Justice Malala on the eNCA’s Justice Factor show a week ago.
(edited by MLM)
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