The six-member national executive committee members including ANC National Chair Gwede Mantashe ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula and ANC Treasurer-General Gwen Ramokgopa spent a week in Cape Town visiting poorer areas such as Khayelitsha and Delft but avoided the Cape Flats areas of Mitchells Plain and Manenberg which are plagued by escalating gang violence and unemployment...

Three of the province's top politicians made it into the ANC's top seven positions: Mashatile as Deputy President; Nomvula Mokonyane as Deputy Secretary-General; and Dr Gwen Ramokgopa as Treasurer-General...

We also hear that Ramaphosa lobbyists are planning to persuade presidential advisor Bejani Chauke to step down in the treasurer-general race in favour of former deputy health minister Gwen Ramokgopa...

' Alongside Mchunu the team included Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula as secretary-general former Gauteng health chief Gwen Ramokgopa as treasurer-general and Gwede Mantashe to stay on as chairperson...

Defence Minister Thandi Modise Justice Minister Ronald Lamola Treasurer-General Paul Mashatile (also acting Secretary-General) and acting deputy Secretary-General Gwen Ramokgopa are also seen as potential contenders for top six posts and we understand are all aligned with Ramaphosa's reforms...

Mashatile and Gwen Ramokgopa are acting Secretary-General and Deputy Secretary-General respectively...

And when a vote was held earlier for a vacancy on the NEC pro-Ramaphosa Gwen Ramokgopa won with 53 votes to 36 for the Magashule-backed State Security Minister Ayanda Dlodlo...

In an event to commemorate the execution of a guerrilla fighter 30 years ago Gwendoline Ramokgopa Mayor of Tshwane and Nomvula Mokonyane Gauteng Premier sang ‘Shoot the Boer’...