Limpopo divided

The ANC in Limpopo officially nominated Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe to replace President Jacob Zuma as party leader at the party’s national elective conference in Mangaung this coming Sunday.
The announcement of Motlanthe’s nomination was made last Thursday, after the first nomination conference had to be postponed when violence erupted between Zuma supporters and those who support Motlanthe.
The electoral commission announced that Motlanthe won the nomination process by 268 votes to seven. ANC treasurer-general Mathews Phosa was nominated for the position of deputy president, Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula for secretary-general, Thandi Modise for national chairwoman, Thenjiwe Mtintso for deputy secretary and Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale for treasurer.
The second nomination process where however just as volatile, as delegates could not agree on credentials requirements during the registration process.
Delegates from the Waterberg region were especially unhappy with the process. Regional Secretary Andries Lekalakala told Northern News last Thursday that 65 of the Waterberg delegates where illegally removed from the premises. “At the registration process some of our delegates’ membership cards were confiscated. There were also many illegitimate delegates who partook in the vote. We were very confidant the Zuma would win the nomination process, but the provincial leadership who are all pro-Motlanthe rigged the process to benefit their own vote,” Lekalakala said.
According to reports dozens of delegates at the registration points wore T-shirts bearing the face of Zuma and songs in his support blared from parked vehicles. But by Thurdsay morning results showed that the ANC in Limpopo preferred Motlanthe as their new president.
Lekalakala is adamant that the Waterberg branch will take the matter to the Secretary General to declare the nomination process invalid and flawed.