AFRICAN National Congress delegates finally began voting for their next president and other leading positions last night after exhaustive procedures to weed out those disqualified from participation.

While voting by the 4,776 delegates was expected to continue into the small hours of today, no results will be known before this morning.

ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte told a press briefing at the Nasrec conference centre in Soweto that it had finally verified all the delegates who would take part in proceedings.