The softly-softly Ramaphosa faction will never implement radical policies
President Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: ALAISTER RUSSELL/SUNDAY TIMES
Among other things, the 54th conference gave Ramaphosa a mandate to unify and rebuild the ANC. This was set against the poor electoral performance of the ANC in the 2016 local government elections, in which it lost major urban centres such as Nelson Mandela Bay, Johannesburg and Tshwane. It is now quite clear that the Ramaphosa faction has consolidated its power and base by making bold decisions. At the same time, though, I am not implying that this faction will win or lose the upcoming elective conference of the ANC. My main line of argument is that the Cyril Ramaphosa 2022 faction has been entrenching its hegemony in the ANC in the name of unity and renewal by applying the step-aside rule in a way that is questionable.
However, this dominance has created scope for counter-hegemonic responses by the forces of RET. Of late, Mandla Msibi was elected treasurer-general in the Mpumalanga provincial executive committee of the ANC and later on stepped aside in the light of murder charges against him. Paradoxically, an attempt was made in some quarters within the ANC to hold Zandile Gumede back from being elected at the eThekwini regional conference.
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