The ANC will have a new face come 2019 – Mantashe
30 November 2016
Johannesburg – The ANC seems to be pinning its hopes to slow down electoral decline through a change of leadership when it hosts its electoral conference in 2017.
“Many of you don’t take into account in your analysis that there is an intervening activity, an event that is the national conference of the ANC in 2017 where there will be a new president who will be the face of the ANC in the 2019 campaign,” said the party’s Secretary General Gwede Mantashe on Tuesday.
He was responding to questions from journalists following a three-day national executive committee meeting the party held in Pretoria.
A motion of no confidence was proposed at the gathering, with some leaders in the party calling for President Jacob Zuma to step down.