{"id":94066,"date":"2025-12-10T18:59:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mbalula-anc-plans-overhaul-in-kzn-amid-leadership-squabbles"},"modified":"2025-12-10T19:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:06:21","slug":"mbalula-anc-plans-overhaul-in-kzn-amid-leadership-squabbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mbalula-anc-plans-overhaul-in-kzn-amid-leadership-squabbles","title":{"rendered":"Mbalula ANC Plans Overhaul in KZN Amid Leadership Squabbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The African National Congress (ANC) has described its intervention at its KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) branch as a &#8220;big disappointment,&#8221; citing that the members it deployed to stabilise the province have instead been squabbling over leadership positions.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the ANC reconfigured its provincial leadership following a spectacular electoral decline in last year\u2019s general elections. Part of this reconfiguration involved establishing a Task Team and deploying experienced members to oversee the branch&#8217;s operations.<\/p>\n<p>However, speaking at a media briefing in Boksburg on Wednesday, ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula announced the party is planning another complete overhaul of its KZN leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Mbalula stated that the members tasked with stabilising the province have abandoned their mandate for internal disputes:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn KZN we disbanded a structure because we are facing an existential crisis there, a tsunami. What did the people do which we have given them a task? They are fighting [over] who must lead, not the task we gave them. We will put them aside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to fetch people who are going to build the ANC in KZN, root and branch. Not people who are concerned about who must lead and all of that and just leave and abandon the task. So it\u2019s a big disappointment for the ANC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comments underscore the party&#8217;s frustration with the lack of progress in its efforts to address the internal divisions and electoral losses that have plagued the KZN province.<\/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. The African National Congress (ANC) has described its intervention at its KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) branch as a &#8220;big disappointment,&#8221; citing that the members it deployed to stabilise the province have instead been squabbling over leadership positions. Earlier this year, the ANC reconfigured its provincial leadership following a spectacular electoral decline in last year\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":94065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-94066","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>Mbalula ANC Plans Overhaul in KZN Amid Leadership Squabbles - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The African National Congress (ANC) has described its intervention at its KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) branch as a &quot;big disappoin ...\" \/>\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\/mbalula-anc-plans-overhaul-in-kzn-amid-leadership-squabbles\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mbalula ANC Plans Overhaul in KZN Amid Leadership Squabbles\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The African National Congress (ANC) has described its intervention at its KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) branch as a &quot;big disappoin ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mbalula-anc-plans-overhaul-in-kzn-amid-leadership-squabbles\" \/>\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=\"2025-12-10T18:59:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-12-10T19:06:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/12\/sm_1765380933.757837.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\/mbalula-anc-plans-overhaul-in-kzn-amid-leadership-squabbles#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mbalula-anc-plans-overhaul-in-kzn-amid-leadership-squabbles\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mbalula ANC Plans Overhaul in KZN Amid Leadership Squabbles\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-12-10T18:59:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-12-10T19:06:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mbalula-anc-plans-overhaul-in-kzn-amid-leadership-squabbles\"},\"wordCount\":260,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mbalula-anc-plans-overhaul-in-kzn-amid-leadership-squabbles#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/12\/sm_1765380933.757837.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\/mbalula-anc-plans-overhaul-in-kzn-amid-leadership-squabbles#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mbalula-anc-plans-overhaul-in-kzn-amid-leadership-squabbles\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mbalula-anc-plans-overhaul-in-kzn-amid-leadership-squabbles\",\"name\":\"Mbalula ANC Plans Overhaul in KZN Amid Leadership Squabbles - 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