The president offered an olive branch to alliance partners to ease tensions over the government of national unity
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa speaks during a Lekgotla at Birchwood Hotel and Conference Centre on August 4, 2024, in Boksburg, South Africa. Getty Images)public figures to stop displaying a lavish lifestyle in the face of rampant poverty and to desist from occupying news headlines for all the wrong reasons.
“If we are divided, if we tolerate acts of corruption and patronage, if we live lavish lifestyles through which we show ourselves to be better than our people and appear to only look after our own, then not even the best communication strategy will be able to improve our standing among our people,” Ramaphosa said this week.
“As the movement, we need to give equal attention to the work of parliament and the legislatures, ensure that we deploy capable and committed people to these institutions, and that they have the resources and capabilities to advance our movement’s electoral mandate,” Ramaphosa said.The ANC has identified the failure of governance in metros such as Johannesburg, eThekwini and Buffalo City as contributing to its electoral decline in the 29 May national and provincial elections.
Ramaphosa said the ANC would continue to talk with its alliance partners on the GNU and welcomed the SACP’s “critical but non-oppositionist” stance over the tactical move. He said it was necessary that the alliance, which includes labour federation Cosatu, must discuss how to handle all the pressing political, strategic, tactical and organisational questions, and that it would emerge stronger from the current strategic setback if members were united and worked together as comrades who did not personalise political issues.
The party has faced criticism for failing to act decisively against some of its members who have been implicated in corruption.
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