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Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
I would also like to thank the members of the planning and technical team at ANC headquarters, who have made this virtual meeting possible. It is clear what needs to be done. It is clear what each of us is expected to do. Let us go out now and do the work. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
I wish to thank former ANC Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma and former Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe for their participation in this Lekgotla, and for their ongoing contributions to the work of our movement. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
I would like to thank all the members of the #ANCNEC, representatives of the ANC’s leagues, Alliance partners and other mass democratic movement formations, and all the deployees from various different sectors for an enriching and productive lekgotla. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
These decisions give expression to our theme for 2021: Unity, Renewal and Reconstruction in the Year of Charlotte Maxeke. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
These decisions give effect to the priorities and tasks identified in the ANC’s January 8th Statement, and provide a clear line of march for the year ahead. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Over the course of the next few days, the decisions of this NEC lekgotla will be consolidated into a report that will be distributed to all our structures, to our Alliance partners and to the broader South African public. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
It agreed that the country’s immigration laws need to be implemented more rigorously and consistently, in line with our Constitution and international commitments and in pursuit of our national interests. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The lekgotla recognised that a coherent, integrated and efficient approach to immigration and border management is important for economic development and social stability. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Among other things, this development presents a valuable opportunity to broaden the participation of South African women’s formations in this important continental organisation. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The meeting welcomed the decision of the Pan African Women’s Organisation to locate its permanent headquarters in South Africa. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
We trust that this commitment to global peace justice and security will include a focus on the rights of the people of Palestine and the occupied territories. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The lekgotla welcomed the positive commitment to renewed global collaboration signaled by President Biden of the USA. We call on America to speedily reverse the illegal recognition and imposition of Morocco sovereignty over Saharawi. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The lekgotla raised concerns about the lack of progress in resolving the issue of Western Sahara in a manner that recognises the right of the Saharawi people to full independence & self-determination. We will intensify efforts in the AU, UN & other forums to advance this struggle — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
As a country and as an organisation, we will continue to participate in efforts to silence the guns on the continent. We will do this through our participation in multilateral bodies and processes and, where appropriate and where sought, through bilateral engagements. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
We will continue to be actively involved in the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area, giving particularly attention to our initiatives on the economic empowerment of African women. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
These include the continental response to the COVID pandemic and ensuring the access of all African countries to sufficient dose of vaccines. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
As South Africa’s term as the Chair of the African Union draws to a close, the lekgotla agreed that we need to continue to be engaged with several of the priorities of our term. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The lekgotla also reflected on another of the ANC’s priority tasks for 2021, namely working towards a better Africa and a better world. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The ANC will continue to mobilise across society for a comprehensive campaign to end gender-based violence and femicide so that no woman or child need live in fear. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
While national government has reprioritised resources to tackle the epidemic of crimes against women and children, much of the work needs to happen in municipalities and communities. These efforts need to be properly resourced. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The lekgotla identified the need to provide more resources at a local level to combat gender-based violence and femicide. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
We need to speed up implementation of our decision to establish an ANC Electoral Committee to lead the candidate selection process. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
We have agreed that all existing councillors must go through an intensive evaluation, particularly in municipalities that have performed poorly or where there allegations of corruption. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
As we approach local government elections, we need as the Alliance to select candidates for local government that are capable, experienced and are respected in their communities. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The meeting identified a problem that many local development projects have been started, but not completed. We have resolved on a comprehensive audit of unfinished infrastructure projects, which will inform interventions to complete projects & perform necessary maintenance. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
that they are accountable and transparent, and that they remain focused on the developmental needs of communities. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
An important decision is that the ANC and Alliance need to be working far more closely at local level, together with other structures of the democratic movement, to ensure that municipalities are well governed and managed, — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
It also urged the state to implement drastic measures to deal with individuals who are vandalising and destroying public infrastructure such as schools, water electricity and transport networks. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
increasing transparency of supply chain management systems, and strict enforcement of the listing of municipal officials and service providers implicated in maladministration. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The lekgotla was unambiguous in its resolve to strengthen consequence management and accountability in municipalities through strengthening public accounts committees, acting against public servants conducting business with municipalities, — PolitiTweet.org
