ANC Western Cape celebrates as ANC National Policy Conference resolves to downgrade embassy in Israel
5 July 2017
The ANC Western Cape together with activists from branches, regions, provinces, leagues, alliances, BDS, MJC and other partner structures are celebrating yesterday’s National Policy Conference resolution to downgrade the South African embassy in Israel. This is a major victory for human rights and for the people of Palestine!
The ANC holds a policy conference every 5 years where policy recommendations are debated and forwarded to the party’s national conference which will take place in December.
Below is an extract quote from the IR commission report which was adopted by the conference plenary which was attended by over 3000 delegates from ANC branches across South Africa.
The resolution on the downgrade reads: