Zweli Mkhize returns to NEC, Pravin out in the cold

Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan is among the high-profile ANC leaders who failed to make it into the party's powerful structure, the national executive committee.

His name was not among the newly elected NEC members announced on Wednesday by electoral committee chair Kgalema Motlanthe.

However, some of his allies — including Phumulo Masualle, who was defeated by Fikile Mbalula for the position of secretary-general — have made the NEC cut.

Pule Mabe and Mzwandile Masina, who also lost their attempt at controlling the ANC purse, have also made it.