Disputed leadership of the ANC Greater Letaba sub-region
The ANC Limpopo provincial executive committee has directed the much-hyped Greater Letaba sub regional conference, which earlier produced a leadership collective led by Samuel Mothomogolo as chairperson and Rito Baloyi as secretary, to rerun.
This is one of a series of house-keeping resolutions taken by the provincial structure after a spate of rogue tendencies across the province, where party protocols were trampled upon with impunity by members deployed in government and other organizational responsibilities.
According to the statement issued by the provincial secretary Reuben Madadzhe, the Greater Letaba sub-regional conference should no have sat with pending branch disputes. The regional organiser is fingered as the culprit for the branch disputes which undermined the integrity of the conference.
The regional organiser faces the music for his misdemeanours.
Meanwhile the supporters of the outcome of the discredited conference poured cold water on the rerun. They reckon that the conference can be rerun a hundred times, but it will always produce the same leadership collective led by Mothomogolo and Baloyi as chairperson and secretary respectively.
Dagma Mamanyoha, Greater Letaba Mayor and Norman Mashabane (Mopani district) deputy regional secretary, has numbers in the sub region and his slate will easily romp to victory in the rerun like in the first conference. The sub region is the remaining bastion of the receding power of regional chairperson Pule Shayi.
In a massive realignment of forces in the Norman Mashabane region, four sub regions went to the victors of the recent provincial conference led by Stanley Chupu Mathabatha. These sub-regions are Mark Shope (Greater Tzaneen), Maruleng, Ba-Phalaborwa, and Greater Giyani.
The province directed the Norman Mashabane regional officials to preside over the rerun of the Greater Letaba sub-regional conference, to haul the rogue regional organizer through the disciplinary processes.
All eyes will be on the rerun of the Greater Letaba sub-regional conference, and whether it will create a clean sweep by the third term slate.