ANC to host presidential gala dinner ahead of Jan 8 statement
The gala dinner follows Thursday's sold-out fundraising golf day event at the Rondebosch Golf Club.
CAPE TOWN - The African National Congress (ANC) will continue its 113th anniversary celebrations with a presidential gala dinner in Cape Town on Friday evening.
The event, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), will also be a continuation of the party’s fundraising efforts as the party struggles to fund its activities.
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The gala dinner follows Thursday's sold-out fundraising golf day event at the Rondebosch Golf Club.
The ANC's celebrations continued on Friday morning with an annual colloquium convened by the party's Progressive Business Forum.
The forum will continue birthday activities with a gala dinner, another form of fundraising for the ANC.
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ANC president, Cyril Ramaphosa, said on Thursday that the party needed all the money it could raise.
"Of course, raising funds is one of the primary activities or focus areas and we're hoping to raise quite a bit of money out of this fundraising day to be able to finance the activities of the ANC," said Ramaphosa.
The gala dinner will be the last event before the party and its supporters descend on Khayelitsha’s Mandela Park Stadium for Saturday's birthday bash and January 8 statement by Ramaphosa.