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[1] [2] Attended by 4,426 voting delegates, [3] the conference elected the party's 87-member National Executive Committee, including the top officials – for the first time referred to as the "Top Seven," rather than the "Top Six," following an amendment to the party's constitution to introduce a second deputy secretary-general position ...
As ANC president (1991–97), Nelson Mandela saw the ANC expand and informally absorb other anti-apartheid groups. The ANC prides itself on being a broad church, [58] and, like many dominant parties, resembles a catch-all party, accommodating a range of ideological tendencies. [59] [60] [61] As Mandela told the Washington Post in 1990:
The National Conference of the African National Congress is a party congress that is held every five years. It elects members to the National Executive Committee , the party's highest decision-making body, as well as the "Top Six" leaders of the National Executive.
The conference's concern with political violence was ultimately embodied in the September 1991 National Peace Accord. In terms of the ANC's substantive negotiating position, the conference reaffirmed the ANC's existing demands for an interim government and a constituent assembly elected on the basis of one-person, one-vote. [1]
The 50th National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC) took place from 16 to 20 December 1997 at the University of the North West [1] in what was then called Mafikeng. Attended by 3,000 voting delegates, [ 2 ] the conference elected a successor to outgoing ANC President Nelson Mandela , who declined to stand for another term.
The 49th National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC) was held from 17 to 22 December 1994 in Bloemfontein, [1] the city in which the ANC was founded. The conference took place several months after the South Africa's first democratic elections, at which the ANC had won 62.65% of the national vote and incumbent ANC President Nelson Mandela had been elected national President.
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.