Simon Nare
After being battered at the polls, a limping ANC now has to get down to do the daunting task of selecting premier candidates for provinces as the National Executive Committee members – some of whom face an unknown future – are set to meet this week to consider names.
The governing party performed dismally across the provinces and have lost three economically-crucial provinces in Gauteng, Northern Cape and KZN while surviving Mpumalanga, Free State and North West but scored resounding victories in Limpopo and Eastern Cape where it got 73% and 62.16%.
While KZN has totally gone to former President Jacob Zuma’s MK Party, the ANC can start agonising about candidates for premiership in Gauteng and Northern Cape where they got the most votes although not the majority.
The NEC is set to meet this Tuesday to consider three names from provincial executive committees and sparks could fly
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