Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday urged the National‚ Health and Allied Workers Union and the ANC’s alliance partners to emerge from their conferences more united than ever before‚ in order to strengthen the ruling party ahead of the 2019 national elections. Ramaphosa said the ANC’s alliance partners must intensify their campaigns because opposition parties such as the Democratic Alliance and the Economic Freedom Fighters had hit the ground running. "Beyond December ANC’s national elective conference) comrades‚ we need to intensify our campaign for the 2019 elections. They must begin intensifying from December moving forward because then‚ the ANC will be armed with the best policies. It will have the best policies which are underpinned by revolutionary radicalism and policies that are going to be implemented‚" said Ramaphosa.

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