The ANC conference starts on Friday to elect new leadership where Cyril Ramaphosa is being contested by former health minister Zweli Mkhize for the top job.
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa during the ANC's gala dinner in Nasrec, Johannesburg, ahead of the party's 55th national elective conference.“This year’s conference is a watershed in many respects. It is a test of whether we will continue to remain faithful to the renewal of the ANC and to the transformation of our economy and society.”
It is however, he said, up to the conference delegates to decide at what he termed a “watershed conference” whether they want the save the ANC or not. Ramaphosa said things were getting better in the country although pundits may have suggested otherwise. “The ANC is our political and ideological home. The task we face is to make the ANC the political home of all the South African people,” Ramaphosa said.
In closing his telling speech, Ramaphosa invoked the late and world acclaimed U.S activist Martin Luther-King to drive home the point that the changes he has made in the ANC deserves further support.
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