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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 January 2025. Political party in South Africa "ANC" redirects here. For other uses, see ANC (disambiguation). For the defunct political party in Trinidad and Tobago, see African National Congress (Trinidad and Tobago). African National Congress Abbreviation ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa Secretary ...
On 30 January 2023, the ANC announced that it had co-opted four party members onto the NEC in an attempt to increase minority representation on the party's highest decision-making body between conferences. The four party members are as follows: [8] Gerhard Koornhof; Alvin Botes; Fawzia Peer; Steve Mapaseka Letsike
The Provincial Executive Committees (PECs) of the African National Congress (ANC) are the chief executive organs of the party's nine provincial branches. Comprising the so-called “Top Five” provincial officials and up to 30 additional elected members, each is structured similarly to the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) and is elected every four years at party provincial conferences.
The ANC's Lehlogonolo Masoga resigned during the first session of the legislature and was replaced by Joshua Matlou in August 2019. [8] In January 2020, Tshitereke Matibe was sworn in as a member after Goodman Mitileni , also of the ANC, resigned to take up a party position. [ 9 ]
The prospect of the ANC going into coalition with the DA is expected to face opposition from some of the ANC’s members and alliance partners including the Congress of South African Unions ...
Soon after each national conference, the newly constituted NEC appoints – at least in recent years, by election [14] – a smaller National Working Committee (NWC), which implements NEC decisions and oversees the daily business of the ANC, including in the provincial branches and in Parliament. Some members are appointed full-time and have ...
A seat in the National Assembly becomes vacant if the member dies, resigns, ceases to be eligible, ceases to be a member of the party that nominated them, or is elected to the office of President of South Africa. The vacancy is filled from the same party list as the former member.
At the turn of the decade, a series of significant events in quick succession changed the course of the movement. First, in 1959, a group of dissidents broke away from the ANC to form the rival Pan Africanist Congress, objecting to the ANC's new programme of multi-racialism as embodied in the Freedom Charter. This was one of two significant ...