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The ANC adopted its national conference credentials just before midday on Sunday, bringing the proceedings closer to the leadership nominations session later in the afternoon.
According to the conference schedule, delegates are expected to start voting for the ANC top six today, paving the way for the announcement of the party’s new president as soon as counting has been concluded.
The credentials report presented and adopted at plenary this morning recorded a total of 4326 delegates who were expected to vote. The number is 405 delegates fewer than the total that had been allocated to provinces in October.
KwaZulu-Natal and Free State have been barred from sending 27 provincial executive committee delegates who also have voting rights.
This was due to judgments from three high courts on Friday that nullified both the KwaZulu-Natal and Free State provincial executives. In the absence of 54 votes from the two provinces, only 189 provincial executive committee members would participate in the leadership elections.
In addition, Free State also lost 19 delegates from 14 branches that the courts disqualified, while the Rustenburg’s Bojanala region, which is the biggest region in North West in terms of membership, had 69 delegates from 38 branches stopped from participating at the conference.
ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte told a media briefing in Nasrec that the disqualified delegates would participate in non-voting capacity.
Duarte said “a few” branch delegates that could not provide proof that they were elected from a legitimate branch general meeting were also removed, while those who provided proof were accredited.
“There was no inflation of the numbers whatsoever,” she said.
According to the credentials list, KwaZulu-Natal dropped from 870 expected delegates to 804, the North West from 538 to 446, and the Free State from 409 to 349.
The Western Cape managed 136 delegates out of the expected 182, Gauteng from 508 to 491, Mpumalanga from 736 to 708, Eastern Cape from 648 to 632, Limpopo from 643 to 567 and Northern Cape from 197 to 193.
A total of 86 ANC national executive committee members and 175 representatives for the leagues – youth, women and veterans – were recorded as present.
This means the winning candidate in the ANC presidential race would require half of 4776 votes or 2389 votes.
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