President Cyril Ramaphosa says that last week’s heated meeting of the ruling party’s national executive committee (NEC) had set the African National Congress on the path of being ‘turbocharged to another higher level of vigour’.
He was speaking to the media after a wreath-laying ceremony at the grave of the late Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Good Friday.
According to TimesLive, Ramaphosa said: ‘The project of unity is what the ANC is about, it’s not about to collapse. Actually it’s being turbocharged to another higher level of vigour, of full commitment throughout the movement and we are serious about what the 54th national conference charged us to do: to unite and to renew the ANC.’
Asked why ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule was not part of the wreath-laying ceremony and ‘whether this had to do with their political feud’, TimesLive reported that Ramaphosa defended this by saying other leaders were absent, too, including his deputy David Mabuza, Magashule’s deputy Jessie Duarte and national chairperson Gwede Mantashe, who is one of Ramaphosa’s allies.
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