Mabe confident of grabbing treasurer-general seat

Outgoing ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe believes he will be named the party's new treasurer-general at the end of the national elective conference on Tuesday. 

Speaking to Sowetan on the sidelines of the ANC's 55th national conference in Nasrec, Johannesburg, Mabe said he has the support of his branch to help him.

"Anyone who has been nominated by branches and went out to accept nomination, did so because they believe they can emerge. I did not accept nomination on the basis of chance. I accepted nomination because my branch, ward 96 in Havana City, Johannesburg, approached me and said 'you have been in the NEC for a decade now and when you were the TG of the [ANC] youth league, you represented us well. We want to push you into this [position of treasurer-general at national level]',’’ said Mabe.

''I told my branch that this is a very expensive position. I don’t have huge network of resource pools. How am I going to pull this one? They told me to believe in a collective and place reliance in those that I work with.