ANC to do quarterly checks on 2024 manifesto promises

After years of been accused of lacking the will to implement its election promises and government policies, the African National Congress (ANC) has developed an outcomes and accountability framework for its 2024 manifesto.

The party will help track the implementation of all its manifesto promises on a quarterly basis.

For the first time since 1994, the party has lost its majority and want to recover the lost ground.

It has tasked the office of its Secretary-General to ensure that all its members deployed in government implement what the organisation has promised to the electorate.

The ANC is taking no chances after the 2024 elections – when the country marked its 30 years of governance.

ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula described the loss of its majority as a major setback since 1994.

“The ANC NEC characterised the outcomes of the 2024 National and Provincial Elections as a significant setback for the national democratic revolution since the 1994 democratic breakthrough.”

“In diagnosing the moment, the ANC NEC agrees that the national fault-lines of unemployment, inequality and poverty have persisted despite progress over the past thirty years, with serious negative impacts on all segments of the motive forces,” he adds.

The party is on a mission to turn things around.

Part of the strategy among others, is to focus on municipalities as the coalface of service delivery as well as the character of its representatives and members in the eyes of the public.

He described how the members conduct has a lot to say about the ANC.

Mbalula adds, “The NEC resolved that we must use this moment to also shed all signs of complacency and arrogance, to be totally intolerant of corruption and incompetence. This moment will also require a more agile and dynamic ANC machinery that can hold individual deployees and leadership collectives accountable to specific outcomes in the ANC Manifesto.”

“We must use the deployment to positions in the state for the sole purpose of pursuing the ideals of liberation to which millions remain committed.”

He said they will focus on ensuring that all the promises they made to the electorate during campaigning are implemented.

“The quarterly reports on implementation of our manifesto will be submitted to the Secretary-General’s office (SGO). The SGO will be central in ensuring that all deployed cadres deliver on their mandates, with regularized assessment processes.”

“The NEC emphasized that pro-active monitoring and evaluation will constitute important tasks, given that the GNU will not be business as usual, to fulfill our electoral mandate entailed in the elections manifesto as well as ANC national conference resolutions,” explains Mbalula.

The ANC Secretary-General says they will encourage South Africans to take part in the national dialogue that will forge social cohesion and chart the way towards the kind of South Africa we are all longing for.

Below is the full address by the ANC SG