[caption id="attachment_35492" align="alignright" width="405"] DECISIVE ACTION: ANC national executive committee member Zizi Kodwa, who also serves as the party's national spokesman, and ANC regional secretary Zandisile Qupe address the media at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium yesterday. Picture: EUGENE COETZEE[/caption]
WORRIED about the possibility of losing a second metro, the ANC has sent its national spokesman, Zizi Kodwa, to Nelson Mandela Bay to do some damage control.
Kodwa met the party's Bay regional bosses yesterday to thrash out their drop in performance in last month's election, and to come up with a plan to bolster the ANC's showing for the 2016 polls.
The ANC garnered 49% of the votes in the Bay in last month's election, a major concern for its bosses at Luthuli House.
Kicking off a two-day regional lekgotla, Kodwa, the national executive member deployed to the Eastern Cape, said: "Since 2009 we have been getting less than 60% of the votes and that doesn't make us happy. We need to go back as an organisation and find out what is the root of the problem." - Mkhululi Ndamase
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