Former ANC deputy president David “The Cat” Mabuza was among the gorvening party’s heavy-weights who were one foot into the ANC national executive committee (NEC) at the 55th national conference but got kicked out by the party’s “zebra stripe” gender quota system.
Sunday World can today reveal that Mabuza as well as the now fired ex-minister Nathi Mthethwa, had in fact garnered enough votes to become part of the 80
additional members of the highest decision-making structure of the governing party between conferences.
However, theirs was a short-lived victory when the ANC applied its gender equity policy that obliges the NEC to have 50/50 male and female representation.
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