The future of the dysfunctional and faction-riddled provincial task team of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal hangs in the balance, and the national executive committee (NEC) has grudgingly extended its mandate by three months.
This is as the nine-month mandate of the PTT, which was tasked with rebuilding branches after the party was decimated by the Umkhonto Wesizwe Party (MKP), expired last month (25 November 2025).
The NEC grudgingly extended it and said that its fate will be decided in the next NEC meeting, which will be held in February next year.
This is contained in a letter dated 2 December 2025 (Tuesday) written by Fikile Mbalula, the ANC Secretary-General and sent to Mike Mabuyakhulu, the coordinator of the PTT and copied to Dickson Masemola, the convener of NEC deployees in the province.
“The mandate of the ANC PTT, which was appointed on the 25th February 2025, expired on 25th November 2025… In its Special Meeting of 01 December 2025, the ANC NEC resolved to extend the mandate of the ANC PTT in KZN up to the date that the next NEC meeting will determine what further interventions must be made with regards to organisational matters in the province, which will be in its meeting before the end of February 2026,” Mbalula said in the letter.
Meanwhile, the deeply divided PTT has been directed to re-convene its provincial general council (PGC) and ensure that the main participants are from branches. The directive comes after some branches complained that the PGC was stuffed with handpicked leaders instead of branches.
The PTT was warned that failure to heed the directive may see the PTT not being able to take part in the national general council (NGC) in six days’ time in Johannesburg, Gauteng.
The directive is contained in a letter that was written by Mbalula and sent to Mike Mabuyakhulu.
“This communiqué serves to inform the PTT to reconvene the PGC with main participants being the legitimate delegates elected from properly constituted BGMs (quorated). I am aw[ar]e that most branches in the Province didn’t meet the deadline of the (28 November 2025) to convene successful BGMs.
“The PTT is therefore granted an extension of 2 days from the 2 to 4 December 2025 to convene all outstanding BGMs for the NGC. Following the convening of BGMs the Province must reconvene the PGC no later than the 5th December 2025.
“All regions must be informed of this decision no later than today the 2 December 2025. PTT and RTT members must be deployed to the branches preparing to convene BGMs and ensure that they are successful, failure to do so the RTT would have forfeited its right of participation in the NGC,” Mbulula directed Mabuyakhulu.
The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal will send 130 delegates to the NGC, a huge drop when compared with previous gatherings of a similar nature.
The PTT had not commented when it was asked when and where the reconvened PGC would be held.
