{"id":92476,"date":"2025-11-06T13:16:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/disbanding-pec-further-sidelined-coloured-supporters"},"modified":"2025-11-06T13:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:24:43","slug":"disbanding-pec-further-sidelined-coloured-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/disbanding-pec-further-sidelined-coloured-supporters","title":{"rendered":"Disbanding PEC Further Sidelined Coloured Supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Former African National Congress (ANC) provincial secretary Neville Delport claims that by disbanding the ANC\u2019s provincial executive committee (PEC) last week, the party has further sidelined its coloured supporters in the Western Cape.<\/p>\n<p>Delport on Wednesday jumped ship to the Democratic Alliance (DA), where the party said he will campaign in rural communities ahead of the next local government elections.<\/p>\n<p>Delport led the ANC\u2019s Rural for Change movement in 2024\u2019s elections to garner support from marginalised farming and fishing communities.<\/p>\n<p>Delport said he was stonewalled by the ANC\u2019s national executive committee (NEC) in trying to raise the matter of the coloured question in the Western Cape.<\/p>\n<p>He claims that the NEC flatly refused to consider adding anti-apartheid activist Allan Boesak to its candidate lists in 2024\u2019s elections to encourage support in the Cape Town metro.<\/p>\n<p>Defecting to the DA, he said, had been a difficult decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a tough road ahead but I\u2019m willing to do it for all citizens of the Western Cape and, in particular, our coloured communities that suffer in the rural regions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Welcoming Delport to the party, the party\u2019s federal council chairperson, Helen Zille, said while the DA is a non-racial party, it cannot discount the marginalisation and exclusion felt by some communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny political party would be stupid to deny that, and to turn their back on that. And so, we take it seriously. The DA always strives for diversity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, ANC&#8217;s provincial spokesperson, Sifiso Mtsweni, said the DA will dump Delport in the same way it has with other coloured leaders in the past.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">South-Africa<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. Former African National Congress (ANC) provincial secretary Neville Delport claims that by disbanding the ANC\u2019s provincial executive committee (PEC) last week, the party has further sidelined its coloured supporters in the Western Cape. Delport on Wednesday jumped ship to the Democratic Alliance (DA), where the party said he will campaign in rural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":92475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-92476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Disbanding PEC Further Sidelined Coloured Supporters - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former African National Congress (ANC) provincial secretary Neville Delport claims that by disbanding the ANC\u2019s provinci ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/disbanding-pec-further-sidelined-coloured-supporters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Disbanding PEC Further Sidelined Coloured Supporters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former African National Congress (ANC) provincial secretary Neville Delport claims that by disbanding the ANC\u2019s provinci ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/disbanding-pec-further-sidelined-coloured-supporters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-11-06T13:16:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-11-06T13:24:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/11\/sm_1762422803.130159.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/disbanding-pec-further-sidelined-coloured-supporters#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/disbanding-pec-further-sidelined-coloured-supporters\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Disbanding PEC Further Sidelined Coloured Supporters\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-06T13:16:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-11-06T13:24:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/disbanding-pec-further-sidelined-coloured-supporters\"},\"wordCount\":288,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/disbanding-pec-further-sidelined-coloured-supporters#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/11\/sm_1762422803.130159.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"South-Africa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/disbanding-pec-further-sidelined-coloured-supporters#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/disbanding-pec-further-sidelined-coloured-supporters\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/disbanding-pec-further-sidelined-coloured-supporters\",\"name\":\"Disbanding PEC Further Sidelined Coloured Supporters - 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