The ANC president said that they wanted to build better communities so that people could enjoy better quality lives.
The African National Congress (ANC) leader pledged to build a brand-new home for a 70-year-old Mamre resident. Katriena Sambaba, who has been living in her dilapidated home for the past 40 years, said that she was willing to believe Ramaphosa.
African National Congress (ANC) president Cyril Ramaphosa made the remarks on Tuesday night at the party’s inaugural roll-call event for candidates.
ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa introduced the governing party’s almost 10,000 candidates for the upcoming local government elections on 19 October 2021. Ramaphosa said the candidates have pledged to end corruption and fraud. He also said he is mandating candidates to fix municipal finances and provide basic services to the communities they have been elected to serve.
An ANC Youth League convenor, who only identified herself as Eunice, said that she was confident about an ANC win in the Mangaung metro.
Residents of Phuthaditjhaba aired their grievances loudly when African National Congress (ANC) President Cyril Ramaphosa led an election campaign in the area. They did not give local leaders a chance to speak at all when they tried to address a large crowd at the Riverside sports field.
The ANC has sent a number of its national leaders to the Free State over the past few weeks to try to lure back supporters of suspended party secretary general Ace Magashule who want to run against the party.
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa said that the party would not have any partnerships when it came to governing municipalities, after the November polls.
The president will be visiting several communities in the area throughout the day as the African National Congress (ANC) continues to campaign ahead of the local government elections.
The weekend saw the ANC deploying its president, Cyril Ramaphosa, to the DA-led Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, vowing to take control in a few weeks’ time while EFF leader Julius Malema was in his home province of Limpopo using his campaign to attack the governing party.
African National Congress (ANC) president Ramaphosa was speaking at the party's post-election manifesto briefing on Wednesday evening.
President Cyril Ramaphosa noted that the ANC had involved communities in the selection of its candidates and as a result, they enjoyed the confidence of the people they were expected to serve as they were rooted in the communities and had strong service records.
Cyril Ramaphosa was speaking at the launch of the ANC’s local government elections manifesto at Pretoria’s Church Square on Monday, where former presidents, Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe, were also in attendance.
Party leader Cyril Ramaphosa acknowledged the many challenges the party faced at the municipal level, saying that the quality of services like water, electricity and sanitation in many municipalities did not meet the standard that residents needed and expected.
The party is faced with the difficult task of trying to win back control of several metros it lost in 2016.
On Monday, the apex court handed down a judgment dismissing an application by the Democratic Alliance (DA) and others to have the reopening of candidate nominations declared unconstitutional.
In his closing remarks to the ANC national executive committee's lekgotla, President Cyril Ramaphosa said that the ANC welcomed former President Jacob Zuma's release on medical parole.
The former leader, suffering from an undisclosed ailment, had been in hospital and under observation since last month.
