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Reconfigured WC ANC 'reveals Mbalula's ambitions'
Cape Argus
|November 06, 2025
ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula’s recent decision to replace Western Cape leadership with a task team is viewed by political analysts as a strategic move towards his potential bid for national leadership.
With a similar structure in place in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, all indications are that Mbalula is making strategic moves, especially with suggestions that party leader Cyril Ramaphosa may step down next year.
The decision to reconfigure the Western Cape leadership has had almost immediate ramifications, with the high-profile departure from the ANC of Provincial Secretary Neville Delport, who on Wednesday was announced as a new member of the DA along with three other former ANC members.
Delport said despite winning an elective conference, former PEC members were discarded and replaced by “leaders who lost a conference”.
This story is from the November 06, 2025 edition of Cape Argus.
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