Veterans reiterate call for separate policy conference
ANC veteran Wally Serote insists tacking on a few days to the July conference is insufficient to deal with pressing issues facing the ruling party
ANC veterans want a separate national policy conference from the national consultative conference if they are to adequately air their concerns about the leadership of the party. Three weeks ago‚ the ANC’s national executive committee — the party’s highest decision making body — resolved to set aside two days of the policy meeting scheduled for July to look at "organisational renewal"‚ including previous discussions with the national working committee held in October. However, on Tuesday the veterans reiterated that a separate consultative conference is the only way for the party to reflect on its problems. "The national consultative conference needs to do in depth discussions about how we correct all the things that contributed to the things that the ANC finds itself [in] now. We therefore need time to do that and we can in our negotiations with the leadership of the ANC‚ negotiate how we then partner with the national policy conference‚" said ANC veteran Wally Serote. He was speaki...
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