Rigged: Fake members boost Jacob Zuma
ANC members have claimed that auditors padded the figures for provinces crucial to Jacob Zuma's party presidency re-election campaign
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According to internal ANC documents that aggrieved members provided to the Mail & Guardian this week, more than 2 000 ghost members in Bohlabela region in Mpumalanga were added to the final audit report, which Luthuli House conducted in August.
One of the key complaints is the apparent discrepancy between the preliminary audit report and the final audit report – both of which were conducted within a month. The documents show that the auditors added 100 members to almost all of the 30 branches in Bohlabela News
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Rigged: Fake members boost Jacob Zuma
12 OCT 2012 06:00 - NIREN TOLSI, MATUMA LETSOALO
ANC members have claimed that auditors padded the figures for provinces crucial to Jacob Zuma's party presidency re-election campaign.
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ANC members aligned to the anti-Zuma group in *Mpumalanga have accused provincial and regional party leaders of colluding with its auditors to inflate membership figures in a bid to boost Zuma's re-election prospects.
Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State are expected to be central to Zuma's re-election at the party's national elective conference in Mangaung in December. These provinces have recorded a significant increase in membership over the past few months. In addition Mpumalanga, there have also been complaints about alleged attempts to manipulate membership in KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State.
On Thursday, a disgruntled group of ANC members went to court to seek an interdict on the re-election of Free State ANC provincial chairperson Ace Magashule and his executive committee. The new executive was elected during the disputed provincial conference held in Parys a few months ago.
If the disputes over the allocation of delegates are not settled in time, the national conference could be bogged down by fights over accreditation.
According to internal ANC documents that aggrieved members provided to the Mail & Guardian this week, more than 2 000 ghost members in Bohlabela region in Mpumalanga were added to the final audit report, which Luthuli House conducted in August.
One of the key complaints is the apparent discrepancy between the preliminary audit report and the final audit report – both of which were conducted within a month. The documents show that the auditors added 100 members to almost all of the 30 branches in Bohlabela in the final audit report
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"If during the preliminary audit they could not find the 100 members, where do these members come from suddenly in a space of a month? You can ask any member of the ANC – it is not easy to recruit 100 members in a space of a month," said an ANC member, who asked not to be named for fear of being victimised.
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