{"id":918122,"date":"2022-01-20T19:58:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T19:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/20\/exclusive-ramaphosa-and-his-inner-circle-want-next-anc-conference-to-be-close-to-the-ruperts\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T19:58:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T19:58:17","slug":"exclusive-ramaphosa-and-his-inner-circle-want-next-anc-conference-to-be-close-to-the-ruperts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/exclusive-ramaphosa-and-his-inner-circle-want-next-anc-conference-to-be-close-to-the-ruperts\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Ramaphosa and his inner circle want next ANC Conference to be close to the Rupert\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sources inside the African National Congress (ANC) have exclusively revealed to The Star that there is clandestine plan by President Cyril Ramaphosa and his inner circle to hold the ANC\u2019s 55th National Elective Conference in Cape Town.<\/p>\n

The ANC\u2019s National Conference will elect the party\u2019s new top six.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The highly placed sources say Ramaphosa and his very close backers are plotting to have the conference in the Western Cape in order to distance the delegates from \u201cexternal factors to convince them\u201d.<\/p>\n

During conference it is common to have hotels and entertainment venues surrounding the electoral facility become strategy booths for delegates and some branch members who did not make it as delegates to conference.<\/p>\n

Sources claim that one of the reasons Minister in the Presidency, Mondli Gungubele was recently appointed as the State Security head, was to bring government intelligence capacity into Ramaphosa\u2019s office in preparation of the election showdown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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New State Security Agency head Mondli Gungubele. Image:Karen Sandison\/African News Agency(ANA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gungubele\u2019s startling appointment raised eyebrows last week as the first Minister in the presidency to be given another portfolio.<\/p>\n

The Source further revealed to the Star that the other reason behind the hush plan of holding the conference in Cape Town was so that Ramaphosa could be closer to his friends and advisers, the Rupert Family, who live in Stellenbosch, a stones throw away from Cape Town<\/p>\n

Presidential Spokesperson Tyrone Seale did not respond to questions on the State Security slush fund being directed to Ramaphosa\u2019s December campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Questions were also sent to the ANC\u2019s Treasurer General Paul Mashatile, who is manning the secretariat office since Secretary General Ace Magashule\u2019s is suspension and the Deputy Secretary General Jessie Duarte is hospitalised.<\/p>\n

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Sources inside the African National Congress (ANC) have exclusively revealed to The Star that there is clandestine plan by President Cyril Ramaphosa and his inner circle to hold the ANC\u2019s 55th National Elective Conference in Cape Town. The ANC\u2019s National Conference will elect the party\u2019s new top six. The highly placed sources say Ramaphosa and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}