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Lucas declines nomination for provincial ANC leadership─── 08:45 Sat, 13 May 2017
Colesberg - In a dramatic twist to the ANC Northern Cape elective conference, Premier Sylvia Lucas declined nomination for the provincial chair position.
Zamani Saul, who was the secretary, was elected chair of the province uncontested.
Bentley Vaas was elected deputy chair, Deshi Ngxanga secretary, Maruping Lekwene deputy secretary and Fufe Makotong treasurer.
News24 reports Lucas was missing from the hall when the nomination process started. She returned to the marquee to find that her whole slate had declined nomination and followed suit.
Lucas said contesting would have been an "exercise in futility following allegations of discrepancies in the nomination process leading to the conference" and she has vowed to approach the party’s National Executive Committee to review the election process.
