If the ANC cannot decide and if the conference is delayed indefinitely through squabble or litigation then what happens to the elections in 2019? Obviously they have to go ahead as it is a constitutional obligation but would the ANC allow them as they would surely view them as illegitimate because they, and they be Gods, have not settled on who is to get brown envelopes.
Call it as it is because it ain't governance. 
But Stephen, I would be careful of hitching too close to the man who paid his workers at MacDonald pittance and then sold out to a foreigner in Dubai (what is it with Dubai that makes jumpy money rest there?).