Ramaphosa is expected to address another ANC’s Letsema campaign this coming weekend. 

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According to the ANC’s interim Provincial Committee (IPC) spokesperson, Oupa Khoabane, the province is preparing for the visit of the President to the Letsema campaign on Saturday with the rest of the details expected to be communicated later.

Ramaphosa's visit to the Province comes after the IPC announced that it failed to prepare and hold its much-anticipated party elective conference last week, as it was expected.

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According to the IPC spokesperson, Oupa Khoabane, the conference will not be held this weekend, in accordance with the roadmap. He says the new date will be set for late October once the IPC sits to review the roadmap. “As a result, we will like to convey our sincere apologies for this inconvenience. We will announce a reviewed roadmap in due course, Khoabane added.

In July 2022, disgruntled ANC members dragged the party’s IPC to the Free State High Court on a matter of urgency. ANC Branch 29 Secretary in Mangaung, Ditaba Mokhutle, said that they were seeking a court judgment against the IPC to be dissolved. He said a number of factors have since ignited the court move and those include the failure to prepare and organise a provincial party conference. Mokhutle said another factor is that the IPC's nine-month lifespan has lapsed.

Ramaphosa’s last visit, during the launch of the Letsama campaign held in Mangaung, included the handing over of a house by the Free State Premier, Sisi Ntombela, to a child-headed household, which includes one sister and two brothers.

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This later placed the premier, among others, in hot water with the opposition parties.

The DA leader in the province and a member of the provincial Legislature, Roy Jankielsohn, during a media briefing held at the party’s headquarters in Bloemfontein earlier this year, alleged that the ANC had used the government resources, in turn conflating party issues with the government.

However, the aspersions were later dispelled by Premier Ntombela.

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