ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has downplayed talk of disbanding the partys structures in KwaZulu-Natal after its annihilation by Jacob Zumas MK party in the May general elections.
There is no preoccupation on the part of the national working committee (NWC) about the disbandment of structures and the provincial executive committee (PEC) in particular, he said on Monday.
Mbalula addressed journalists on the sidelines of the ANC NWC meeting in Durban.
The NWC members have been on a two-day visit to KwaZulu-Natal to get feedback from party structures about the elections programme and at the same time to update them about the decisions the party has undertaken since the formation of a government of national unity (GNU) at national level and the government of provincial unity which is led by the IFP in that province.
KwaZulu-Natal is the ANCs biggest province in terms of membership numbers. It was also the province most affected by the emergence of the MK Party as it dropped from 54.22% in 2019 to 16.99%, with the MK Party winning 45.35% of the provincial vote.
