ANC’s Zizi Kodwa: Vetting process will ensure ANC candidates are fit for election

The African National Congress will vet over 800 party members to see who is and who is not eligible for election to various legislatures in this year’s general elections, the ANC said on Sunday.

The ANC national executive committee (NEC) has been meeting at the Coastlands Hotel in Umhlanga, Durban since Friday to discuss the various nominations lists received from ANC branches across the country.

ANC acting spokesman Zizi Kodwa said on Sunday the names would now be reviewed, with those that “sow division” or have criminal records, among other things, expected to be removed from the lists. Once this process was over, the names would be forwarded to the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) in the run up to the elections scheduled for May.

“The public representatives must know they are chosen and did not choose themselves. The list must be electable. They must enhance the integrity