Former ANC president Thabo Mbeki has thrown his weight behind a consultative conference to address the ills of the ruling party in honour of the late stalwart Andrew Mlangeni.
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Mbeki said addressing the concerns of South Africans and party members would be the only fitting way to honour Mlangeni. “I think for us to say those things with feeling, with meaning, with seriousness, it must be because we then say to ourselves that we are saying those things because we are committing ourselves to the renewal of the ANC. The renewal of the ANC which he built, the renewal of the ANC about which he was concerned. As we say rest in peace, we say rest in peace because we will attend to these challenges.
Mbeki backed a proposal made by stalwarts, some of whom have since died, in the run-up to the ANC 2017 elective conference to have a consultative conference to take stock of the challenges faced by the party and map a way forward. He said: “Calls have been made, for instance, for the ANC to constitute a consultative conference specifically to look at this matter of renewal. We need that so it can discharge its responsibility to the people, the nation and the continent, and allow the old man Andrew Mlangeni to rest in peace.”
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