We want a consultative conference in September - ANC stalwarts
29 June 2017
Johannesburg – The ANC stalwarts and veterans, who are boycotting the consultative conference ahead of the party's policy conference, want to hold the event at a later date. They want a national consultative conference to be held in September.
The stalwarts and veterans had decided to boycott the first two days of the policy conference set aside for a consultative conference.
ANC veteran Murphy Morobe said veterans had requested time to engage with discussion documents to develop a common understanding of the crisis in the ANC.
Morobe said at a press briefing at Constitutional Hill on the eve of the ANC policy conference that the decision of stalwarts not to participate on the first two days was also based on the failure of President Jacob Zuma to raise the proposed separation of the policy conference from the consultative conference as previously promised.