Gunnet Kaaf (North West): ‘You need to give people decent jobs and you need to change the [economic] structure.
It’s been almost 17 years since freedom, so I expect a lot of work to have been done on this front. For this NGC leadership issues are not relevant, but that does not mean on the sidelines people will not be talking.”
Senzeni Mphila (Western Cape) [On the media tribunal]: ‘It’s surprising that the media is hyped up about it now — we took the decision in December 2007. So the NEC must report to us how far they are with the mandate we gave to them in 2007.”
Farouk Jogi at ( G a u t e n g ) : ‘We’re hoping that we can unite strongly this time around and leave out the factions, leave out 2012 until 2012 comes around and let’s start delivering to the people.”
Sibusiso Fakude (KwaZulu-Natal): ‘We’re hoping to get a more united ANC — There is no battle between [Julius] Malema and [Jacob] Zuma because we haven’t seen anything — but uMalema is still young. If he’s going wrong, we are always telling him.”
Amos Zwelikhanyile Gwebani (Eastern Cape): ‘What needs to be dealt with is the alliance’s concerns about the implementation of the Polokwane resolutions as well as the policies of the ANC — such as economic policies — The youth league knows that the ANC will not deal with leadership items.”
Mac Maharaj (former transport minister): ‘The key question is: Are we meeting the needs of the people of our country, for whom we have fought and for whom we remain in power?
This is part of the way the ANC always renews itself and it will have arguments — bitter arguments, healthy arguments — and if people from the outside look at it and run away thinking the end of the world has arrived — no. The beginning of South Africa continues.”– Verashni Pillay