A cavernous conference centre in Johannesburg has been prepared for the elective conference of the African National Congress (ANC) party, and the political forecasts are as bad as the meteorological ones.
The conference, which runs from 16-20 December, is a five-yearly event at which delegates will elect a new leader of the ANC – and so, as the party has been in power for 28 years, of South Africa too. In charge of both is