ANC stalwarts question party’s commitment to promised soul-searching
The veterans are worried that the party’s post-lekgotla briefing said nothing about a national consultative conference
A group of ANC veterans have raised concern about the party’s commitment to holding a national consultative conference. The stalwarts were upset that the issue of holding the consultative conference separately from the policy conference in June was not mentioned in the statement following last weekend’s lekgotla. Nor was mention made of ongoing discussions between them and ANC officials. "This does raise questions on the commitment to the process of introspection and the importance of the agreed national consultative conference as an integral part of that process," the veterans said. ANC spokesman Zizi Kodwa said on Friday that the veterans had not spoken to the party about their unhappiness. "It was a statement of the NEC [national executive committee] lekgotla and it focused on policy issues," he said. "Other issues, organisationally, which we have been dealing with, they would not have been part of that statement." Kodwa said the ANC always had an open-door policy for the veteran...
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