ANC believes it has run successful anniversary campaign in Western Cape
The party’s first deputy secretary general, Nomvula Mokonyane, said in a province where the party’s support is at an all-time low, there’s been a deliberate attempt to break away from how the party has traditionally run this annual programme.
The ANC's first Deputy Secretary-General Nomvula Mokonyane. Picture: @MYANC/X
CAPE TOWN - The African National Congress (ANC) believes it has run a successful anniversary campaign in Western Cape this week.
The party’s first deputy secretary general, Nomvula Mokonyane, said in a province where the party’s support is at an all-time low, there’s been a deliberate attempt to break away from how the party has traditionally run this annual programme.
President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Saturday deliver the party’s January 8 statement in Khayelitsha, the party’s stronghold in a Democratic Alliance (DA)-run province.
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It’s been a week of engaging communities and visiting veteran party stalwarts in the Cape Town metro for the party’s top brass.
In a province where identity politics can’t be discounted at the ballot box, the ANC has over time all but completely lost the support it once had from the majority-coloured population.
This week, the party has tended to focus much of its activities in the township areas.
Mokonyane doesn’t believe the party has been neglecting coloured communities but said it’s been a conscious decision to flip the script on how it’s run this programme in the past.
“We are reconnecting not only with the Coloured community, but also with sectors. We met with different formations, because part of the rebuilding of the ANC is building a movement similar to the United Democratic Front.”
Mokonyane said the ANC wants to cultivate relationships beyond its members with organisations that share a common vision.
“We’ve changed the script. We’ve adapted the script, because we are on the path of renewal, worse with the lessons of that setback of May 2024.”
Mokonyane said the party is expecting a 20,000-strong crowd on Saturday in an area where poverty and inequality are rife.