Months after ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula slammed the KwaZulu-Natal’s ANC Provincial Task Team for failing to revive the party in the province, there is still no official directive from Luthuli House to disband the interim body headed by Jeff Radebe and Mike Mabuyakhulu.

Mbalula criticised Radebe and Mabuyakhulu’s dismal performance, likening their poor performance to ‘a slow moving Toyoza Tazz’ and said that the 67-member task team would be reconfigured and trimmed down to a smaller number.

On Tuesday, the party’s provincial spokesperson Fanle Sibisi said ‘notwithstanding Mbalula’s announcement, the task team is doing its work as normal until the national leadership’ provides a new directive.

“We were appointed by the National Executive Committee (NEC) and we will continue operating until the same structure tells us to stop. For now it’s business as usual,” said Sibisi.

He said that the party is currently busy with arranging conferences for branches in preparation for regional and ultimately the provincial conference. Although he did not want to provide details, he said there is a new road map which will lead to the provincial conference.

The task team was meant to have held a provincial conference in November however, none of the 11 regions managed to hold a conference – which prompted Mbalula’s outburst.

Sibisi said the NEC meeting expected to take place next month will take the final decision about the task team’s future.

An ANC branch leader in eThekwini said very few branches in the region have successfully held branch meetings and elected new leaders.

The ANC’s national spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri did not respond to questions.

willem.phungula@inl.co.za

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