ANC Cancels Meeting With Allies to Focus on Election Losses
- Party’s National Executive Committee to meet over four days
- ANC alarmed at scale of decline in support, analyst says
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South Africa’s ruling African National Congress canceled a scheduled meeting that would have included its labor union and communist party allies and will instead have its highest decision-making body review the local election results, its worst since the end of apartheid.
A four-day National Executive Committee meeting starts Thursday in the capital, Pretoria, with the review of the election performance one of the topics to be discussed, ANC spokesman Zizi Kodwa said Wednesday, declining to elaborate. About 100 senior members are expected to attend. The party had planned that the wider meeting, known as a “Lekgotla,” would take place this coming weekend.