Ramaphosa: Task of rebuilding SA on ANC shoulders
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa says the party's leadership
needs to help the country navigate the challenges left behind by the Covid-19
pandemic, July unrest and KZN's recent floods.
He delivered the closing address at the ANC's Eastern Cape elective conference.
He said the country has been severely impacted, hundreds of lives have been lost and unemployment's reached a record high.
Ramaphosa said the goal is to intensify economic and infrastructure recovery.
"We've had all these devasting events descending on us. On a fragile economy, on a population that has high unemployment rate and poor," he said.
"But this is the task that then given on the shoulders of the ANC, it is us who must find ways, needs and answers to navigate our people around these challenges.
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Meanwhile Oscar Mabuyane, who was re-elected as the ANC's Eastern Cape chairperson, has endorsed Ramaphosa for another term as party leader ahead of the organisation's elective conference in December.
He told delegates that Ramaphosa has been bold enough to move forward with renewing the ANC, saying there hasn't been a leader willing to that risk previously.
