[ICYMI] South Africa’s governing African National Congress in the Gauteng province, elected new leaders on Sunday who face the daunting task of shoring up the party’s flagging support ahead of 2024 elections. Moneyeb ANC Elections
South Africa’s governing African National Congress in the Gauteng province, the nation’s economic hub, elected new leaders on Sunday who face the daunting task of shoring up the party’s flagging support ahead of 2024 elections. Provincial minister of education Panyaza Lesufi was elected as the party’s regional chairman, securing 575 votes, while provincial minister of co-operative governance Lebogang Maile got 543.
With public anger running high over a lack of basic services, rampant unemployment and poverty, the party’s control over parliament and Gauteng will both be at risk in the 2024 vote. “Gauteng is too far gone,” Lukhanyo Vangqa, a political analyst, said. “I doubt there is any leader or anything that can reverse the decline of the ANC in that province. I think the leaders of the party and even at a national level are alive to that reality.