ANC meets with stalwarts' foundations
Johannesburg - The ANC met representatives of three stalwarts' foundations on Tuesday after they asked the party’s NEC to take responsibility and implement urgent corrective action in the interests of all South Africans.
The engagement was "cordial, frank and robust" and both parties agreed that a follow-up meeting was needed, ANC national spokesperson Zizi Kodwa said.
"The ANC appreciates the initiative taken by these important foundations to engage the ANC in the common quest to build a united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous society led by the African National Congress," he said.
The foundations expressed their concerns in a letter handed to party secretary general Gwede Mantashe at the ANC’s national executive committee meeting in Pretoria on Saturday.
Its signatories are Frene Ginwala, chairperson of the Oliver and Adelaide Tambo Foundation; Professor Njabulo Ndebele, chairperson of the board of trustees of the Nelson Mandela Foundation; and Tourism Minister and NEC member Derek Hanekom, on behalf of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation.