By Doreen Mokgolo
ANC deputy secretary-general Nomvula Mokonyane has promised that the party will not become a rotting carcass in her lifetime but must reinvigorate itself.
Addressing the media at the ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) in Boksburg, Mokonyane said the party had learned the hard way after achieving disappointing results in the 29 May elections.
Discussions on repositioning, repurposing and rebuilding structures in Gauteng, KZN and the Northern Cape are underway.
The party is hosting a six-day NEC and national lekgotla to deliberate on the poor outcomes of the May elections and the state of the organisation.
It is the party’s first formal sitting since the elections, when its support dropped to 40%.
Mokonyane said the delayed responses to service delivery challenges affected the party’s support during the elections.
“Initiatives like [the job programme] Nasi iSpane, the delivery of new transformers, and the fight against load shedding seemed suspicious to the people on the ground, who questioned the period in which they were delivered [before the May elections].
“Recruitment of members must go with political education, and making the ANC dynamic must be our primary mission.
“Our branches of the ANC must not be measured on 100 members but on the programmes in the community with members working in those communities,” Mokonyane said.
The ANC’s head of elections, Mdumiseni Ntuli, rubbished the notion that some members of the party have rejected some of the policies of the Government of National Unity.
“It is not true that some comrades are unhappy with the GNU. There were discussions when it [unhappiness] was suggested, and because we are not homogenous, there were instances when others held different views, but in the end, the party adopted the policy,” he said.
Pictured above: ANC leaders.
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