Ramaphosa urges party members to use GNU to advance ANC’s future

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African National Congress (ANC) President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged party members to use the government of national unity (GNU) to advance its future electoral fortunes.

He was addressing hundreds of party members at Luthuli House in Johannesburg on the achievements of the government of national unity after 100 days.

Only alliance partner the South African National Civic Organisation (SANCO) attended.

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) staged a boycott.

Ramaphosa says ANC members should see the GNU as an opportunity to strengthen the party and ensure it once again appeals to people of South Africa.

“Comrades, this is a moment that we should use to increase the standing of the ANC. This is the moment that we should use to ensure that the ANC continues to lead society. The people of SA still love the ANC.”

“We should use this moment of the GNU to strengthen the ANC, to rebuild our branches from the bottom. So that the ANC must go back to its original seat of governing this country,” adds Ramaphosa.

Ramaphosa has urged South Africans not to judge the GNU on its political orientation but on the work it has done to change their lives for the better.

The ANC President cited what he calls the marked improvement in investor confidence and reduction of load shedding as some of the achievements of the GNU.

He says South Africans should be patient with the GNU and judge it fairly.

“The GNU should not be judged by the political orientation that constitute it but it must be judged by the impact it has on the lives of the people of South Africa,” explains Ramaphosa.

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