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DELEGATES at the 6th ANC Policy Conference held at NASREC, south of Johannesburg, have overwhelmingly endorsed the controversial step-aside resolution that the governing party passed at its 2017 National Conference.
The step-aside policy, which requires party leaders accused of corruption to step down from their positions, was endorsed at the conference despite some fierce opposition from Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal delegates.
Vociferous delegates from Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal argued that the step-aside rule was not implemented consistently and was being used by the party’s President Cyril Ramaphosa to silence his opponents such as suspended ANC Secretary General, Ace Magashule.
The Eastern Cape and the Northern Cape provinces were among those that openly fought hard at the policy conference to keep the step-aside rule in place.
Eastern Cape ANC Chairperson Oscar Mabuyane was one of the party leaders who dismissed calls to scrap the step-aside resolution.
The policy conference,
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