During an Oliver Tambo lecture at Kagiso, President Jacob Zuma said that he is ready to hand the baton to the next incoming ANC president.
President Zuma and his deputy differed sharply on the handling of the ANC Eastern Cape conference during their visit to the province.
The president will come face to face with his detractors when the political alliance council finally meets at ANC headquarters at Luthuli House.
The ANC faces another court battle as two Free State members have made an urgent application to have the Provincial Executive Committee dissolved.
Nzimande lambasted the NPA for its inefficiency in bringing those implicated in the Gupta matter to book.
During his opening remarks of the annual Bi-National Commission held in Pretoria on Tuesday, Mugabe said the ANC should not be torn.
Judge Belinda Hartley, however, ruled that the papers filed for case could be used for a possible review of the conference.
During his first media briefing in the position, Mabuyane seemed confident that the party would win the court case.
The ANC MP says that disciplinary proceedings will go ahead against her despite a ruling that the party’s provincial leadership is illegitimate.
The ANC’s alliance partners in Gauteng are calling for a reconfigured alliance.