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Original Post Date: 2008-03-13 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
While African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma is embroiled in a legal battle in the Constitutional Court, the party’s national executive committee (NEC) is to decide whether his deputy should be deployed to parliament and ultimately the cabinet.
The ANC’s NEC gathers for a four-day meeting in Kempton Park from Friday, where the matter of Kgalema Motlanthe’s status is expected to be finalised.
The party has until April to amend its list of candidates for the National Assembly, which doesn’t include Motlanthe. It has three vacancies in the National Assembly.
Motlanthe is widely touted as a compromise candidate for the country’s presidency, given Zuma’s fraud and corruption trial. Hence the push for him to join parliament to give him legislative experience and to groom him for higher office.
The country’s constitution allows two non-MPs to be cabinet ministers, but these posts have been filled by Makhenkesi Stofile and Mosibudi Mangena.
Motlanthe will therefore have to be sworn in as a parliamentarian, if it is decided to appoint him as a cabinet minister under the Mbeki administration.
Motlanthe’s possible cabinet deployment was apparently discussed at a recent meeting between Zuma and President Thabo Mbeki.
ANC spokesperson Jesse Duarte said the Motlanthe issue was not on the NEC agenda, and was being dealt with by the ANC’s top six officials. But party sources said the amendment to the ANC’s national assembly candidates list would be finalised by the NEC meeting this weekend and therefore there would be final clarity on whether Motlanthe would be included.
It is understood that Motlanthe is uneasy about joining the government, as he feels that the NEC is well represented with 11 ministers and three deputies.
The meeting will begin with Zuma giving a political overview on the state of the party and reports from NEC members on the state of ANC provinces.
Duarte said the provincial reports would also cover their readiness for the upcoming conferences in seven provinces.
The date for the party’s national list conference will also be decided.
This is the conference where the party will decide who its candidates will be for the new parliament in 2009.
Also on the agenda will be the review of the national working committee’s review of the country’s education system and discussions on whether the ANC should launch its own commercial newspaper.
The NEC meeting comes at a time when the euphoria of Polokwane has subsided and Zuma’s coalition – which catapulted him into power – has begun showing cracks. Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi is on record as saying the “honeymoon is over”.
The meeting also follows Cosatu’s decision to defy ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe by encouraging its members to continue drawing up lists of preferred candidates for leadership in the ANC’s provincial structures. Mantashe had spoken out against this practice. Cosatu also wants its leaders to be co-opted on the ANC NEC.
In a recent political report, Vavi said: “We can’t be happy with the fact that only one serving trade unionist (National Education Health and Allied Workers Union president Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya) is part of the NEC. We need to have a discussion with the (ANC) leadership and lobby for more unionists to be co-opted to ensure the balance is improved.”
It is likely that Cosatu’s wish will be granted. A recent internal ANC document, written by NEC member Enoch Godongwana in response to Cosatu’s call for a pact, also moots affording Cosatu leaders ex-officio status on the NEC to maintain their independent profile.
The 86-member NEC also has to take a “specific” resolution, according to Mantashe, to deal with the Eastern Cape and Gauteng, which have not finished their terms of office and are only due for provincial conferences next year and 2010.
The Polokwane conference adjusted the terms of office for provincial executives to four years so that provincial conferences precedes the national conference held every five years.
“Those are two cases that need a specific decision because they held their conferences (recently). To now allow them to run with the shorter old term (of office) may disadvantage them,” Mantashe said.
“If we say they must be treated as an outer case, their conference may actually push their next conferences beyond the next national conference, so those two provinces require specific resolutions of the NEC.”
Ironically, the last conferences in the two provinces resulted in the defeat of so-called Zuma supporters – although Gauteng later backed Zuma for ANC president. Calling for early conferences may be viewed as Luthuli House’s attempt to deal with provinces that had been considered hostile to Zuma.
On Wednesday, it was still unclear whether Mbeki – who left for a state visit to Mauritius on Tuesday – would attend the meeting.