Jessie Yasmin Duarte

Eastern Cape also wants current Chairwoman Baleka Mbete to serve again with Mantashe as Secretary General Jessie Duarte (a Zuma ally) as Deputy Secretary General and Naledi Pandor as Treasurer General...

This time Mantashe has replaced him with his close ally Jessie Duarte as ‘national elections coordinator’...

Jessie Duarte the former Chief Operating Officer left because she felt Zuma did not heed her advice...

Former Northern Cape Premier Manne Dipico ­ widely credited with masterminding the ANC's past two successful national election campaigns ­ was deposed as head of the NEC Subcommittee on Elections and Campaigning and replaced by the pro-Zuma Gauteng politician Jessie Duarte...