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Gauteng Prime Minister David Makhura, unanimously elected as Provincial President, and former Mayor of Joburg, Parks Tau, elected Provincial Treasurer, are from Joburg while the former Prime Minister of the United States. Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi and the President of the Gauteng legislature Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko come from Ekurhuleni. Lesufi was elected vice president and Nkomo-Ralehoko, deputy secretary of the party.
However, it is the besieged mayor of the local municipality of Emfuleni, Jacob Khawe, who stole the show at the conference.
His area of Sedibeng in Vaal had 142 delegates, the lowest of the five regions, but he managed to get support from all three major regions to be catapulted to the highest post of the provincial ANC to replace Hope Papo as provincial.
Khawe defeated his rival Boycie Maneli of the West Rand by more than 180 votes.
On Saturday, several senior provincial leaders admitted that their sections had chosen Khawe as a candidate instead of Papo during their appointments
. "Most of our branches in Joburg chose Jacob Khawe, and we had to respect their decisions," said one of the members of Joburg's regional management.
Motalatale Modiba, spokesperson for the ANC of Gauteng, said the new executive could only give interviews today.
Modiba said that the executive was preparing for the election of the remaining 30 provincial executive members to be announced today.
However, the big surprise was the performance of the ANC Tshwane region. It was the first time in eight years for the ANC Tshwane, the third largest region of Gauteng, not to get a single seat in the top five provincial.
In the past, Dr. Gwen Ramokgopa, a native of Pretoria, had been part of the top five of the ANC until he was elected to the highest decision-making body of the party when his elective conference last December.
Ramokgopa had previously been vice president of the ANC and recently deputy secretary
The exclusion of Tshwane took place when Makhura was unanimously elected provincial president while Panyaza Lesufi was beat the economic development MEC Lebogang Maile by 22 votes to supply Makhura.
Lesufi obtained 623 votes while Maile received 601.
during the last-minute lobbying in the early hours of Saturday
According to internal sources, Maile lost the race after refusing to vote. include the former regional president of Tshwane M apiti Matsena in his slate.
One of the insiders said, "Maile's list approached the Tshwane delegation for support, we asked them to include Comrade Matsena's name but they refused."
Weekend Argus
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