PHUTI MOSOMANE
DELAYS at the 55th ANC national elective conference were largely caused by a new, high-tech membership registration system, acccording to ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe.
He said the new membership system being used has a number of security features to avoid any form of infiltration or illegal access to the conference.
The new membership system is also capable of detecting and eliminating ‘ghost’ delegates who are not eligible to attend conference.
“The only thing that needs to be finalized is credentials. There is a new membership system being used that has a number of security features to avoid any form of infiltration,” he said.
Mabe said the party would be able to conclude its business on time despite the baffling delays caused by technical glitches and challenges.
“But I can assure you that we will be able to conclude the conference as planned, it’s all hence on deck,” Mabe said.
The party believes delegates will be able to adopt credentials on Saturday, and begins a process of nominations and elections of ‘Top Six’ officials.
Mabe said the conference was now underway, with Deputy Oresident David Mabuza delivering the organisational report despite credentials report not being adopted.
He declined to give a specific figure of how many delegates eventually got accredited.
The party said it has learned valuable lessons from Gauteng and the Eastern Cape were the provincial conferences were delayed until credentials were adopted.
He said the party has decided to proceed with non-critical items while credentials are being finalized to avoid delaying the entire conference.
“The reason why we this conference is called a national elective conference is that critical to this conference is the election of the leadership. We are doing everything in our power to ensure that conference goes ahead,” said Mabe.
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