Cape Town — In a leaked audio recording from a National Executive Meeting (NEC), African National Congress (ANC) president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has criticised his party members for failing to meet their commitments, a reports say.
Ramaphosa shared his thoughts on the party’s readiness and deployment plans ahead of the general elections on 29 May. He questioned some of the party’s NEC members and their failure’s to meet their commitments, saying they have left their volunteers high and dry, Leaked Recording: Ramaphosa Criticizes ANC NEC Members for Unfulfilled Commitments reported.
“Sometimes our structures wait and wait and NEC members don’t appear, that deflates them. We’ve got volunteers around the country and we need to reinvigorate them,” he said.
Ramphosa also allayed fears that the ANC was facing financial challenges, saying funding would be made availabel ahead of the party’s eclection campaign.
“Funding for the campaign is definitely going to be there, we need to fire it up, with boots on the ground. Issue of posters is being resolved, issue of leaflets, we did say at the NWC [National Working Committee], we need to print out millions of leaflets.” Ramaphsoa said.
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According to Mail & Guardian, Ramaphosa also said the ANC would need to get at least 14 million votes for a clear victory.
“In order for us to win, it’s no longer getting 10 million votes that (we) used to do in the past. Now we’ve got to get 13 to 14 million votes in order to be assured of a clear victory. So there’s much work to be done and if there’s the leadership that can do it, it’s this leadership,” he said.
ANC head of elections, Mdumiseni Ntuli, detailed the party’s campaign battle plan to achieve its objectives of staying in government. Ntuli said Tramsport Minister, Sinidiswe Chikunga, was exemplary in communciating the ANC’s success stories.
“We need something of a similar nature, where the government is aggressively communicating the success stories because these are success stories of the people of South Africa,” Ntuli said.
Ntuli said MECs must also do the same in provinces “because there will be success stories that are provincially related because of the ANC-led government in that province”.
He said the government and all departments should submit to the ANC’s elections team details of all the projects they would launch between now and election day.
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Compiled by Matthew Petersen
