General secretary Kgalema Motlanthe gave the assurance that everything was on course ahead of the December conference at a media briefing at the party's headquarters in Johannesburg.
A total of 3 675 voting delegates, from the nine provinces, will converge in Polokwane in December, with an additional 400 from the ANC Youth League, the Women's League, the National Executive Committee (NEC) and the Provincial Executive Committees.
Around 5 000 participants, both voting and non-voting, were expected to attend including observers from the SA Communist Party, the Congress of SA Trade Unions and the SA National Civics Organisation.
The number of voting delegates is proportional to the provinces paid up membership; the Eastern Cape is represented by 906 delegates, KwaZulu Natal by 608 delegates, Limpopo has 400 delegates with the Free State, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, North West, Northern Cape and the Western Cape following in that order.
Once branch nominations have concluded, each province will hold a nomination conference.
"A provincial nomination conference is then called, reflecting the provinces representation to national conference.
"The 60 nominees who receive the most branch nominations will automatically become the provincial nominees for the NEC [National Executive Committee]," the ANC's head of presidency Smuts Ngonyama said.
ANC branches were also continuing discussions around policy issues which emerged at the party's policy conference in June, he said.
Ngonyama reiterated that the conference in December was about more that just leadership elections.
"It's not just about the election of leadership, it's about debating the future of the ANC and about what we do to change the lives of our people," he said.
On the leadership issue Motlanthe said: "The election of the leadership should be a true reflection of the will and the wish of its [the ANC's] membership. That is what the ANC would prefer".
The battle for the party's six top spots as well as 60 positions on its national executive committee will take place at the conference.
The conference may also see amendments to the ANC's constitution and there was a possibility that the amendments would include the provision for gender parity in all ANC structures.
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