A bitter feud over allegations that the eThekwini metro footed the bill for the nullified ANC Women’s League (ANCWL) KwaZulu-Natal elective conference has taken a new twist.
The ActionSA in KwaZulu-Natal is now leading a charge calling for a full-scale investigation on who funded the conference held at the iconic Durban International Convention Centre (ICC) over four days in August.
According to Zwakele Mncwango, ActionSA provincial chairperson, the metro and the ICC covertly entered into an agreement under the pretext that the gathering was going to be a women’s month event.
However, said Mncwango, the event was later turned into an elective conference for the governing party’s women’s structure.
“The agreement was signed between the municipality and the ICC under the so-called women’s month launch,” Mncwango said.
“There was no agreement between the ANC and the ICC. Instead, an invoice of about R4.7-million was issued to the city.”
He said a sequence of events shows that there was clear corruption and fraud, noting that this needs to be investigated and that implicated individuals should be held liable.
“We have since written to the city integrity and investigative unit to investigate,” he said.
“The mayor must also explain whether the municipality signed a memorandum of understanding with the ICC.”
In a letter authored by Nokuthula Nqaba, women’s league national secretary-general, and sent to the office of ANC provincial secretary Bheki Mtolo, she directs that the elected leadership, led by social development MEC Nonhlanhla Khoza, should step down.
“Please be advised that the ANC Women’s League national executive committee meeting convened a special national executive committee meeting and resolved on the nullification of the sixth conference of the ANCWL KwaZulu-Natal which took place between 4-7 August,” reads the letter from Nqaba.
Sunday World reported in August that the conference was likely to be disputed after aggrieved delegates cited vote irregularities.
Other delegates claimed that they were barred from casting ballots.
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