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Original Post Date: 2009-01-22 Time: 06:00:07 Posted By: Jan
After years of being in the political wilderness outside government, ANC stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela tops Gauteng’s nomination list, while Cosatu’s Zwelinzima Vavi has declined a parliamentary nomination.
On the other hand, the ANC warns that the party will not offer positions simply to retain potential defectors.
The Star was reliably told on Tuesday that Madikizela-Mandela is number one on the Gauteng ANC’s list of national candidates.
However, Madikizela-Mandela – who left the government after she was fired as deputy minister by her former husband Nelson Mandela and later left parliament – is yet to accept the nomination.
She could not be reached for comment at the time of going to press.
Her name on the list is followed by the Motshekga couple – Education MEC Angie Motshekga and former Gauteng premier Mathole Motshekga.
Gauteng Premier Paul Mashatile and most of his MECs have been returned in the provincial list, indicating a vote of confidence in the provincial administration compared to other provinces, where branches are purging their government.
Gauteng ANC spokesperson Nkenke Kekana would not confirm Madikizela-Mandela’s nomination.
While provinces are firm on ANC leader Jacob Zuma as their presidential candidate, with Kgalema Motlanthe as his deputy, jostling for top provincial leadership positions is creating tensions in provinces.
But ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said premiers would be appointed by the national executive committee after three names have been recommended by the provincial leadership.
Meanwhile, despite nomination from the Free State and other provinces, Vavi chose to remain at Cosatu House in the absence of a succession plan.
“Cosatu unions have made it clear to me that I should not make myself available, for both political and organisational reasons,” he said.
Vavi said he also wanted to halt a trend and perception that Cosatu leaders build their profiles and then leave for greener pastures in government.
His predecessor, Mbhazima Shilowa, left for the premiership of Gauteng and is now deputy leader of the Congress of the People, while another Cosatu general secretary, Jay Naidoo, joined the cabinet in 1994 and later went into business.
Mantashe said the ANC would not use its list conference to retain defectors.
“People must be in the ANC because they believe in what it’s doing,” he said.
In nominating candidates, Mantashe said, structures were asked to look at the “criminal and insolvency status and general conduct of nominated ANC cadres”, and to ensure that branches form quorums.
With problems reported in several provinces, including the Western Cape, Mantashe – who chairs the national list committee – said the committee would sit today and tomorrow to “deal with such issues before the conference”.