Source: (Business Day): (Zamani Saul)

The ANC in the Northern Cape has condemned the circulation of what it has dubbed as a “fake provincial list,” amid the emergence on social media of a list bearing the names of 23 party members purported to be earmarked for deployment as Members of Parliament (MPs) after next year’s general elections.

The ANC’s provincial secretary Deshi Ngxanga lambasted the list as an attempt “to sway public opinion to advance a narrow regionalist posture that seeks to pit one ANC region against the other,” in a statement.

With the ANC heading into its provincial list conference next month, Ngxanga’s reaction pinpoints the simmering tensions into what could be a menacing nomination process for salaried political careers and perks that come with being a public office representative.

“The nomination process for public representatives and who will be nominated is at the discretion of branches of the ANC,” asserted Ngxanga.

He added in the statement that the nomination process would be seeking to find the best amongst ANC members “in order to advance the struggle for radical socio-economic transformation and to speed up the fight against poverty, unemployment and inequality.”

One of the lists in possession of NCNN.Live is of province to national which translates into possible seat in parliament’s National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) which has largely been criticised to be functioning like a “post-office” in rubber-stamping legislation and sadly perceived to be a place where political careers fade-away.

Indications are that there could also be another list in circulation purporting names of those to be installed in the provincial legislature and with a chance of being appointed into the executive council as MECs.

It remains to be seen as to whether the nomination process will end up in a court battle or even end up festering itself as a reflection of a spillover effect of contestations into the outcome of the party’s provincial conference of last year. For now, Ngxanga stated that it all “at the discretion of the ANC branches.”

Source: Northern Cape News Network