31 JUL 2026‘ANC is not my property’ – MoreroLunga Mzangwe4 min read

The former regional chair insisted that he was working well with the current leadership of the party Former ANC Johannesburg regional chair and current City of Johannesburg Executive Mayor Dada Morero says he has long since moved on from the party’s December 2025 regional conference, where he was defeated by current Deputy Mayor Loyiso Masuku. “I’ve moved forward long ago. As you know, I even issued a statement accepting the outcome and I moved on because I’m one individual who cannot remain aggrieved or angry,” he said, during a Mail & Guardian podcast interview this week.

“This is not my organisation; it is not my property. If it was my property, it would have been a different story. So we move on.

We continue to work for the organisation. “We were lucky that some of us remain part of that rare generation of the ANC that always puts the ANC before our own personal interests because that’s how we were trained. That is why I moved on immediately.” He insisted that any disputes arising from the conference remain the responsibility of the ANC’s national executive committee, as all complaints were lodged with the party’s provincial and national leadership.

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Following the conference, Morero wrote to the provincial leadership expressing his dissatisfaction with the process, while his supporters also lodged their own complaints. The fallout deepened divisions in some ANC circles, with Morero’s supporters alleging they were being purged by those aligned with the conference victors. Morero’s supporters claimed this was evident during the councillor candidate selection process, alleging that those aligned with the current regional leadership were emerging as the successful candidates.

“The ANC is a big organisation,” he said. “There will always be contradictions within the ANC. But the ANC attempts to put regulations in place to help us deal with those issues.

“You know that we have been undertaking a process to elect councillors, which is a branch process. The ANC has guidelines to avert situations where those who are in political power at the time undermine others.” Morero added that the party’s processes were intended to protect the integrity of both the organisation and its members. “So we do go through that process.”

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