Zuma vows to renew ANC

January 13, 2012 | Filed underPopular News | Posted by editor
The ANC in 2012 will take “urgent and practical steps” to fast-track the development of cadres, new and old.
Delivering the ANC’s centenary January 8 statement to a packed Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein, President Jacob Zuma said the party would take various steps to once again place the ANC at the forefront of the progressive forces for change.
“We shall introduce and enforce measures to ensure that every member has undergone compulsory political and ideological training so that they understand fully the undertaking that to join the ANC is to make a conscious choice of serving the nation.”
To this end, the party will be rolling out the institutionalisation of political education at all levels of the organisation in the next five years. In particular, the work of building the national and provincial political schools will take centre stage in the political and academic development of the membership and leadership.
In the next decade, the ANC will roll out leadership development programmes to ensure that the movement is protected from “…the tyranny of slates, factions, and money and ensure that at all times the organisation is led by the most experienced, most committed, most talented and best collective across the generations.” Other aspects the ANC will look into in 2012 will include taking urgent steps to restore the core values and political discipline in the party.
“As we mark the centenary, we are determined to enhance the moral standing and image among the masses of our people. In this regard, we shall combine political education with effective organisational measures and mechanisms to promote integrity, political discipline and ethical conduct and defeat the demon of factionalism in the ranks of the ANC, The Alliance and broad Mass Democratic Movement.”
Zuma also announced that practical steps would be taken to ensure that the programme of transformation of the country would be accelerated and taken to new heights.
“Unless the ANC makes rapid progress in the transformation of our economy and society to benefit the majority, it will be unable to withstand colonialism of a special type.”
The president said the country needed urgent answers to aspects of unemployment, poverty, and inequality.
“Over the next decade, both the ANC and all organs of state shall pay a single minded and undivided attention in order to overcome these triple challenges.”
He also said that the country’s education and training system should be the cornerstone of all efforts to radically transform South Africa and build a truly non-racial, non-sexist, democratic, united and prosperous South Africa.
Zuma urged South Africans to begin a dialogue on the future of the country as the party prepared for its policy conference in June and its 53rd National Conference in December 2012.
He announced that the party would renew its internal systems and processes in order to prepare a new generation of leadership, whose integrity was unquestionable.
In an ANC statement, the party said it would also review its leadership election system to enhance internal democracy
and credibility.
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