ANC can't continue dealing with splits: Zuma
ANC President Jacob Zuma says the party can't continue dealing with splits after elective conferences.
A spirited Zuma closed the ANC's 5th National Policy Conference in Nasrec yesterday, saying the party must rid itself of factionalism before its year-end elective conference.
"We must do everything in our power to jealously guard the unity of the alliance," says President Zuma.
Zuma says the ANC has lost good leaders due to factional politics dating back to its watershed 2007 Polokwane Conference.
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He called on the various camps within the party to accommodate one another and not have a winner-takes-all slate as in the past.
"I think for the sake of our unity, for the sake of our organisation we need to amend the ANC constitution on one factor - the comrade who was nominated to become the deputy president, when he loses, he becomes the second deputy," says President Zuma.
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