Daily news update: Bathabile set to make comeback, calls to support ANC top 7 and heavy rain hits Limpopo

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Daily news update – 20 December 2022

Bathabile Dlamini will be allowed to stand as candidate for ANC NEC – Mbalula

Newly elected ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula says former ANC Women’s League president, Bathabile Dlamini, will be allowed to stand as a candidate on the soon-to-be-voted national executive committee (NEC) of the governing party.

ANC elective conference 2022

Dlamini was disqualified from standing as a member of the ANC’s highest decision-making body, in between national conferences, by the party’s electoral committee due to her perjury conviction.

Lamola calls on ANC members to rally behind Ramaphosa, new top 7 leadership

Justice Minister Ronald Lamola has called on ANC members to rally behind the party’s new top seven national leaders led by President Cyril Ramaphosa.

“I think the outcome [of the elections] is what the delegates have expressed. It’s what we must accept [as ANC members] and the delegates need to move forward to rebuild the organisation,” said Lamola.

Zuma becoming a wrecking ball now, says Blade Nzimande

African National Congress (ANC) NEC member Blade Nzimande has condemned former president Jacob Zuma’s behaviour at the party’s conference in Nasrec.

This after the former president entered the hall at Nasrec a few minutes into Ramaphosa’s political report, receiving chants from delegates, resulting in the disruption of the president’s speech.

Level 2 warning: Severe thunderstorms, heavy rain and hail to hit parts of Limpopo

The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued a yellow level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms that are slow moving, leading to heavy rain, large amounts of small hail and strong damaging winds in the extreme south-eastern parts of Limpopo and the eastern Highveld and escarpment areas of Mpumalanga on Tuesday.

The weather service has warned residents in these areas to watch out for localised flooding of susceptible formal and informal settlements or roads and low lying areas and bridges.

Messi says he will continue Argentina career after World Cup win

Argentina star Lionel Messi on Sunday vowed to continue playing for his country despite finally realising his lifetime ambition of winning the World Cup.

“I want to keep experiencing a few more matches as world champion,” Messi, 35, told Argentine television following the country’s epic penalty shoot-out victory over France in the World Cup final in Doha.

But Messi admitted his career was almost finished after the Argentina captain landed the one major international trophy missing from his collection.