January 2011

Produced by the African National Congress

Comrades, The ANC NEC Lekgotla took place over three days, 12- 14 January 2011. The first day of the Lekgotla was a closed session where only the elected members of the NEC participated. In this session the NEC attended to its affairs and other organisational matters. The Lekgotla focussed on how best the ANC can drive the campaign of ensuring that more South Africans are employed. There was agreement that 25% unemployment, narrowly defined, is a disaster. The first target set was that unemployment should be reduced to about 15%. The ultimate goal, however, should be getting to full employment. The Lekgotla adopted the New Growth Path (NGP) as the framework within which we must all work. The ten job drivers identified in the NGP are sectors with the highest potential to absorb the unemployed in numbers. We left this important gathering understanding that every department in government must contribute to employment creation in concrete numbers. The relevant departments are equally expected to engage the sectors in their respective areas of responsibility to commit themselves to this national programme. The announcement of this programme triggered a new debate of whether these jobs will be decent. This debate has since taken centre stage, with trade unions, now joined by the youth league, elevating decent work to almost a condition rather than a description of the quality of work. The employers and conservative parties and commentators used this debate to opportunistically describe the ANC as having made a discovery in being in agreement with the right wing. We have described this debate as sterile in that it is a distraction from the reality facing our country, that of stubbornly high unemployment, deepening poverty and growing inequality. We can dent all these pre-eminent

problems facing our society by ensuring that as many South Africans as possible get employed. Obviously this is not a drive for sweatshop jobs, but for permanent jobs in the sectors. The emphasis we are making is that as long as people are unemployed the debate about the quality of jobs is academic. We must also factor in the role of strong sectoral unions in determining the quality of jobs. Equally important is the legislative framework the sets minimum standards in the protection of the rights of workers. We should all go out there and put the campaign for employment creation in overdrive. The other question that has come to the fore is whether we are now neglecting the other four areas of focus. The answer to this question is a definite NO. We are comfortable with the positive results and the progress made in the area of health. There is commitment in starting the implementation of the National Health Insurance in 2012. The improvement in matric results is seen as the early signs of success in the implementation of our strategy. The decline in crime, and violent crime in particular, is what we should be talking about more and more. Rural development has been incorporated in the employment creation drive. The five areas of focus remain as relevant today as it was when we adopted the manifesto. We have identified employment creation as one priority where we have not made sufficient progress. The economic recession that we have experienced over the last eighteen months has taken us few steps back, wherein the economy has shed more than one million jobs. Let us roll up our sleeves and invest in job creation. The message from the lekgotla is Jobs, Jobs, Jobs and Jobs.

The New Growth Path is the answer for Jobs

NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE LEKGOTLA

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FOREWORD BY SECRETARY GENERAL GWEDE MANTASHE

NEC Bulletin • January 2011

BY PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA

There Shall Be Work and Security

We have entered the seventeenth year of freedom and democracy, and the 100th year since the establishment of the African National Congress.

We are marking decades of working to build a united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous society.

We are also celebrating decades of working to achieve the minimum demands of our people, stipulated in the Freedom Charter. The clauses in the Freedom Charter remain relevant even today, and remind us of what we should strive to achieve.

“The People Shall Govern!All National Groups Shall have Equal Rights!The People Shall Share in the Country`s Wealth!The Land Shall be Shared Among Those Who Work It!All Shall be Equal Before the Law!All Shall Enjoy Equal Human Rights!There Shall be Work and Security!The Doors of Learning and Culture Shall be Opened!There Shall be Houses, Security and Comfort!There Shall be Peace and Friendship!”As we stated in the January 8 statement, our primary

objective in 2011 will be to accelerate our work towards the fulfilment of the pronouncement that The People Shall Share in the Country’s Wealth!

As we stated in the January 8 statement, political emancipation without economic transformation and economic freedom is meaningless. Everything we do this year must be designed to help us achieve this goal. Therefore, we must make economic transformation our national project, and our nation- building project.

We have to rally the whole country behind this national priority as we did with education, health, and the fight against crime.

Many will say this country experienced economic growth in the last ten years. Yes indeed our economy grew, but this did not translate sufficiently into jobs. Instead poverty and inequality appeared to be deepening.

We have to discuss how we are going to address this situation. The New Growth Path framework has been presented for discussion and inputs, as our answer to the need to take economic transformation and job creation forward. This lekgotla should take the process forward, and deal with the nuts and bolts of job creation or broadly, socio-economic transformation.

Government departments will be expected to provide implementable plans that will help us create the jobs we need in all sectors. Our economic transformation work must also help us solve certain practical realities. For example, how do we transform the ownership of the economy in order to promote growth, development and jobs?

How do we make our black economic empowerment

policy more broad-based and transformative? We have mentioned our achievement of growing the ranks of the black middle class to more than two million in 2007. However this is not enough.

The majority of black people still lag behind the historically advantaged groups in terms of:

• Ownership of productive assets.• Access to capital and financial resources.• Access to quality education.• Overall levels of income and wealth, and• Obtaining operational exposure.Therefore, the discussions on economic transformation

need to reflect on how to improve our BBBEE policy. We should look at increasing ownership and support for

employment creation, new enterprise development, local procurement, broad-based skills development, employment equity and collective ownership. We also need to discuss the consistent implementation of broad-based BEE in all sectors.

Most importantly, how do we use BBBEE to address the high-income inequalities in our society, to combat poverty and to promote decent jobs?

We also need to look at the development finance institutions and state owned enterprises. How will they participate more in the transformation process and promote skills development and job creation?

We can achieve our goals if we are innovative and bold. For example, it is possible for us to revitalise rural towns and make them vibrant centres where goods can be produced for local consumption and supply to local chain stores, thus creating jobs.

Our infrastructure programme must help us to create communication access, roads, rail, energy plants and alternative sources of energy, all of which provide much-needed infrastructure while creating jobs.

Japan, China and South Korea started with nothing but generated new growth paths by thinking away from the normal paths of action. To enable the State to serve our people better, it means we will need to align our budget and planning processes to the goals we have set, and give effect to the commitments we made at the Polokwane Conference of the ANC.

Most importantly, we have to think creatively. No government department should say, “job creation is not my line function”. It is everybody’s responsibility. Every department will have a plan. Business and labour also realise the pivotal role they need to play in the job creation focus.

Working together, we will do more in this regard.

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POLITICAL OVERVIEW

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IMPROVING SERVICE DELIVERYWe are embarking on this programme against the

background of a successful programme of socio-economic transformation that has taken place over the years. The ANC government has since 1994 dedicated time and resources to reverse the legacy of apartheid and colonial oppression.

Our democracy is stable and solid. The quality of life is steadily improving for many of our people. More people have access to water, electricity, housing, education and health than ever before. Many more remain hopeful that they will receive these services, as they trust the ANC government to deliver on its undertakings.

They also know that the ANC government understands their predicament and will find solutions, working with them. It is this trust and loyalty of our people to the ANC that drives us to work harder each day, to do things differently and better, in order to improve the living conditions of our people.

We can have the best programme of action but it amounts to nothing if the public service fails to change the way it works to enable an improvement in service delivery.

This trust displayed by our people in the ANC and its government should be reciprocated by treating them with respect and dignity as citizens and compatriots. There are initiatives within government that are aimed at revitalising citizen care and promote a caring and efficient government. We should continue improving these programmes and start visible implementation this year.

As the ANC we have said that we want a public service that knows where people live and what they want. The services must be delivered faster, efficiently and in a caring manner. The public needs to be more informed about services that are delivered by departments and to access them.

We have communicated this message consistently.We met with DGs and Deputy Directors-General from

all departments nationally and provincially in April last year. That meeting provided clues as to what could be hindering service delivery. We will meet again soon to discuss solutions. We want to know how things will be done differently in each department.

We also need to ponder the role of revolutionary trade unions in the transformation of the state and improving service delivery.

We must put flesh and blood to our understanding of the Alliance. We are together in developing the programmes of actions and Manifestos and once we complete the process we walk different ways. We need to say what it is that we must practically do together. It is not real that we work on a product and once it is there we look at it as if it not our joint product, something is wrong. We do not spend enough time discussing how to make sure that the product we produce together succeeds. We need to look at this more seriously. The Alliance must be enhanced.

Public sector unions, in particular, are a key stakeholder in ensuring that we improve the delivery of our five priorities. We therefore need an ongoing dynamic engagement with the trade union movement on these issues.

BUILDING A BETTER AFRICA AND A BETTER WORLDInternational relations is an important pillar of our work.

Our country is playing a visible role in the international community as well as in the African continent.

We have to continue working for unity, peace and stability in the continent, within the ambit of the African Union. We will continue to provide support in the Sudan, Zimbabwe, Cote d’Ivoire and other sister nations.

We are also determined to participate actively in the socio-economic development of the continent. South Africa champions the North-South corridor, particularly the construction of road and rail links, and leads a subcommittee of eight Heads of State within the ambit of the NEPAD programme.

We should strive to make this project succeed and contribute to our job creation objectives in our country and the continent. Part of our international success in 2010 was our regaining of the UN Security Council seat.

We must use the seat to further promote the African agenda and that of the South and contribute to creating a better Africa and a better world at a practical level.

We also celebrate the invitation to join the Brazil-Russia-India-China grouping, another example of how seriously our country is regarded in the world. We will use this forum to further promote economic and political relations, taking forward our quest for a growing economy and decent jobs in 2011 and beyond.

As we deliberate in this lekgotla, let us remember the commitment made in the inauguration address, before the eyes of the world in 2009.

We said that: • For as long as there are South Africans who die from preventable disease; • For as long as there are workers who struggle to feed their families; • For as long as there are communities without clean water, decent shelter or proper sanitation; • For as long as there are rural dwellers unable to make a decent living from the land on which they live; • For as long as there are women who are subjected to discrimination, exploitation or abuse; • For as long as there are children who do not have the means nor the opportunity to receive a decent education; • For as long as there are people who are unable to find work,

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We shall not rest, and we

dare not falter. We sing that i-ANC

iyasetshenzelwa. Let us work harder each day to make a difference in the

lives of our people.

NEC Bulletin • January 2011

BY SECRETARY GENERAL

Priorities for the ANC Government in the 2011-12 Financial Year

1 BACKGROUND

1.1 On January 12th to 14th, 2011 the NEC is holding its annual Lekgotla in preparation for the Cabinet Lekgotla. The primary intention is to ensure that the ANC provides guidance and leadership to the work of the Cabinet, and also influences the content of the budget.

1.2 Holding an NEC Lekgotla a few days before the Cabinet Lekgotla and few weeks before the presentation of the budget is, however, not the most effective way of influencing the outcome. We therefore propose that the NEC Lekgotla should be held in July, so as to ensure that we influence the necessary government processes appropriately and in time. We are fortunate that in 2010 we had the NGC in September and resolutions thereof would form the basis for the ANC input to the Cabinet Lekgotla and the budget processes.

1.3 The ANC must identify the short-term priorities that need urgent attention and allocation of resources in the next two financial years. This framework would assist the movement quantify progress made. If we do this properly in the current process we will be able to roll it over from one financial year to the next. For it to be a reality we must be concrete on what we expect from the government. We must ask our comrades deployed in government to have concrete timeframes for all the plans.

1.4 The commitments that were announced on January 08th must be transformed into a programme. It is important that all the commitments the ANC makes are made reality for society to continue having unshaken confidence on this glorious movement. It is therefore important that what came out of the NGC and the January 08th 2011 statement must be part of the programme and find their way to the State of The Nation Address and the budget speech. The ANC deployees have the responsibility of monitoring the policy debates and discussions in the movement.

2. EMPLOYMENT CREATION: OUR MAJOR AREA OF FOCUS – aligning priorities for the 2011/12 Financial

Year to meet the stated objective 2.1 Following the global economic meltdown, the

South African economy lost around 1 million jobs in the last eighteen months. As a consequence, unemployment - narrowly defined, has grown from 22,5% to more than 25%, thus posing a major challenge for the government. This means that we are not only building on the work done during the last sixteen years, but are recovering lost ground during the recession in our economy and also seeking to reverse the previous trend of jobless economic growth.

2.2 Aware of this challenge and committed to our primary objective as stated in the January 8th Statement, that is, “to ensure that the minimum demand that “All shall share in the country’s wealth”, Employment creation should therefore receive our priority attention.

2.3 In this context, our strategic objective should be that of building a strategic partnership between the ANC and the various sectors of society. Our primary task should be to develop a broad multi-class social consensus and social cohesion on this priority area, as resolved in the 52nd National Conference, committed to in the 2009 Election Manifesto and reaffirmed by the 2010 National General Council.

2.4 In this regard, it is incumbent upon the African National Congress to give leadership to government and all of society to this end. As stated in our January 8th Statement,

“To implement this goal, the ANC and its government will rally the country behind achieving meaningful economic transformation and job creation...”

A. Creating an Effective and Efficient State Machinery

2.5 The first area of focus is to ensure that government is responsive and effective. This can only be reality if there is capacity in the state to implement government programmes.

2.6 The ANC needs to pay greater attention and invest in the capacity, skill and expertise of a senior public service that can effectively and efficiently implement government programmes, in line with commitments we made to the electorate. Therefore, we need to consider the establishment of a fully-fledged school of government/public sector academy. Its main role would be to train senior government officials. The long-term objective would be to reduce over-dependence on individual performance in the selection processes, and the current perennial problems in the public service management.

2.7 We have been talking of a single public service for years but this remains a dream rather than reality. The process of standardisation of conditions in the public sector in all the three spheres must be finalised in the next financial year. If the resources required are not readily available, the framework must be in place and implementation may be over a number of financial years, but such a programme must be concrete. State machinery that is effective and efficient is a requirement for good, quality service delivery.

2.8 Trade Unions must be engaged on how best can the ANC government work with them in delivering quality service to the people. We must spend time engaging the unions on the concept of revolutionary and transformation

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trade unions, and their preparedness to serve. This will elevate the level of engagement from narrow

bargaining to that of a holistic approach where we put service to the people at the centre.

2.9 The public service must develop a concrete programme regarding job creation, focusing on three key areas:

• Reducing the number of vacancies in the public service to the barest minimum

• Absorption of young graduates and school leavers• Internship programmes

B. The New Growth Path2.10 The adoption of the New Growth Path by the

Cabinet provides us with a framework within which we must work. This framework provides us with an opportunity to begin the implementation towards meeting the employment challenge, and developing the requisite skills our economy needs, at the same time as we correct the weaknesses identified in the conceptual framework.

2.11 In recent weeks we have seen a lively debate on the New Growth Path. Clearly, the various constituencies are going to protect their class and group interests. Business is hostile to the idea of capping earnings and bonuses, and labour is hostile to the idea of moderating wage increases. In this process the principle of all stakeholders giving up something dear to them in favour of contributing towards employment creation is lost. Only the agriculture sector has publicly acknowledged the realism of the New Growth Path.

2.12 We must note that policy contradictions have been identified as the real threat to the implementation of the New Growth Path. This will require commitment from the deployed cadres of our movement to reconcile these policies instead of protecting terrains.

2.13 The New Growth Path has identified ten job drivers. However, it is important for the ANC to appreciate that the movement in these will not be at the same speed. Where there is more willingness to move with speed such a sector must be facilitated to take the first step.

2.14 Agriculture must be one sector that is prioritised for support.

a. The Department of Agriculture working the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform must therefore develop a concrete plan for commercial farmers, emerging small-scale farmers (both subsistence and smallholder farmers) and food processing. The plan must include the support programme for emerging farmers in both the rural areas and the beneficiaries of the land reform programmes, so that land reform does not negative effects on productive levels of the land.

b. The extension services must be revitalised and made central to all the programmes of the department.

c. Revitalisation of the Agricultural Colleges is urgent for the generation of extension services skills.

d. The Agricultural Research Institutions must be revitalised and properly resourced. These institutions are critical for the volumes of export agricultural production.

e. The ANC must have a detailed policy debate on the cost on this sector accruing from both stock theft and predator animals destroying value. The value destroyed through stock theft and predator animals is running into billions of Rands in any single year. The question of predator animals cannot be left to the environmental department

whose emphasis is on the protection of animals, like the black jackal and the “rooi kat”, without taking into account the value destroyed in food production.

f. A concrete budget for these programmes must be developed and processed for implementation. Agriculture is not only important for food production and food security but also a very labour intensive sector that has the potential to absorb a big chunk of the unemployed.

2.15 Infrastructure Development programme should be broken down into concrete project.

a. Power Stations built programme is clear in that Medupi and Kusile are concrete projects.

b. What do we mean when we talk of rail revitalisation programme? Which rail lines are going to be revitalised - are we focusing on the bulk commodity rail lines such as Oryx and Richards Bay or have we identified passenger rail lines that need urgent attention? Are there any rural lines that were closed that will be reopened as part of rural economic revival? Are there new lines that are in the plans? This approach is applicable to the major roads that will be upgraded.

c. We have been talking about the crisis in the water infrastructure and the water pollution in the major mining areas. We must have concrete plans that talk to this crisis. The underground infrastructure is aging and drifting to a crisis situation. The revitalisation of the underground infrastructure and maintenance thereof must be budgeted for.

d. The infrastructure rollout in South Africa must be linked to African Union initiative. We must be practical about regional integration and easy movement and connectedness in the continent. We must use our capacity to lead major continental initiatives like the Inga Dam Hydro Electricity project. This project has a huge potential to resolve Africa’s energy problems and impacting positively on the continent’s contribution on climate change.

2.16 The State-Owned Enterprises and Development Finance Institutions must be positioned such that they contribute to employment creation. The ANC must ensure that these institutions revitalise the training facilities that were downscaled over the last two decades.

a. They must be the main drivers of the artisan training programme and the training of young graduates. Resources locked in the various SETAs must be used for these programmes. Law must be amended such that funds in the SETAs can be accessed across the sectors if they will be used for concrete skills development programmes.

b. The professional councils must be engaged to facilitate rather than inhibiting progression from graduation to professional registration. This is important if we are to talk of skills in society.

2.17 In the last financial year rural development was a

priority in words but with minimum budget. In the majority of cases the budget was hidden in other departments without it being ring-fenced. As a consequence we continued with the hit and miss approach.

a. The major rural provinces must come up with concrete programmes for rural development. This must influence the budgeting system being changed to make developmental needs one of the major factors taken into

account when allocations are made. b. The ANC must accept and support the proposed

three forms of land holding; state land that can be held through leasehold, freehold with limited extent on private land and foreigners being allowed to lease land with ownership reverting back to South Africans at the end of the lease.

2.18 Mining and mineral processing have been identified as having a huge potential of creating jobs. As we nudge the private sector to take specific initiatives in this sector we must accelerate the process of taking the state owned mining company to operational level. This will add content to the work being done by ANC in the research on the various options other economies have following in the area of state ownership in the resource sector.

2.19 In the financial sector the ANC will be satisfied if the PosBank can get the banking licence. This requires close cooperation between the Ministers of Finance and the Minister of Communication and the South African Reserve Bank. This will give the state a massive footprint in the financial sector. May be in this Lekgotla we will get some explanation why is it difficult and complex to move to this direction. What capital injection is required and are the obstacles to this bank with some presence in every corner of the country from getting the licence? The ANC must pay attention to transformation of the South African Reserve Bank. The appointment of heads of department is as important as the appointment of the governor because that is where future leadership is prepared. The debate on the shareholding of the Reserve Bank has been in low voices and assumption is that the amendment of the legislation governing the Reserve Bank has gone a long way in deal with the imminent threat that we talked about in the last Lekgotla.

2.20 In the area of health more resources must be allocated for improving the skills profile of the department, particularly the employment of properly skilled HODs in all the provinces, properly qualified CEOs and CFOs in the department and in Hospitals. We must employ suitable qualified managers in the district health facilities and in clinics. The quarterly reports from the provinces from give us some space to monitor progress being made. The second area that needs implementation is the re-opening of nursing colleges, the reintroduction of practical bedside training with minimum student remuneration. This will not only improve the quality of our bed side nursing but will also give children from poor families access to professional training. Appropriate budget allocation should be made for the revitalisation of health infrastructure. The HIV and AIDS programme must be budgeted for, including the provision of treatment. The IMC and the Cabinet should immediately approve the NHI proposed programme, so that preparations for implementation should start seriously and the necessary budget allocation is made.

2.21 On Basic Education there must be urgency in the programme to replace mud schools with proper structures. This should go with the programme to roll out education infrastructure. As we roll out new infrastructure the debate must be opened on what to do with school buildings in good condition that get closed because of low numbers of learners. This idle infrastructure is capital locked in unproductive capacity. The re-opening of teacher training colleges must be implemented with specific focus on skills that are in short supply like mathematics and science teaching. The agreement on the non-negotiables must be

implemented and monitored closely by the branches of the ANC. Skills upgrading programmes for teachers must be stepped up and be budgeted for.

The improvement in the 2010 matric results must be used as a foundation to build on as we move forward. The ANC must take an active interest in the provinces with a low matric pass rate. It is curious that three provinces governed by the ANC have a pass rate below 60% when all the other six provinces have the pass rate above 70%. This must not be interpreted as a lack of appreciation for the improvements in the results achieved by these provinces. Specific programmes must be developed to help these provinces. If this is a function of lack of resources and infrastructure, resources must be allocated not as general allocation but directed to specific programmes. Again the question of management skills and capacity must be attended to and not be left to the provinces.

2.22 On Higher and Further Education and Training investment in Historically Disadvantaged Institutions must be resourced. The intensity of exclusion in former white universities imposes an obligation on the ANC to ensure that learners from poor homes and rural schools have access to quality education in these institutions. Equally important is the resource allocation to Further Education and Training Colleges. These colleges must be pushed to provide quality education so that they constitute an alternative path for the learners, and this alternative path being an attractive option for learners. Unbundling MEDUNSA and reinstate it as a stand-alone Medical University must be completed. The department must develop concrete plans for the building of the Medical School in the University of Limpopo, and the building of new universities in both Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape. The commitment made in the January 08th statement on the bursaries for both final year students from poor families in universities and full bursary for FET college learners must be elevated from perceived as gifts. They must be used as the incentive for performance.

2.23 The fight against Crime and Corruption must be the responsibility of every government department, with facilities for whistle blowing being created. The protection of whistle blowers must be more serious and safety and security of these brave patriots must be ensured. The only deterrent for crime and corruption is the ability of the criminal justice system machine to ensure those guilty are arrested, prosecuted and convicted. The ANC must drive the programme of mobilising society to be part of army against crime and corruption. Tender processes must continue to be tightened so that we can deal with the perception that these processes are inherently corrupt. The resolve to improve the capacity of our police services through various interventions must be resourced.

2.24 After hosting the soccer world cup in 2010 we appreciated the potential sports have in building national unity and cohesion. There was commitment that sports will not only about events but will be used as a tool to unite the people of South Africa. This approach requires that the Ministry of Sports and Recreation develop a programme that can be taken up by the structures of the ANC. The developments of a network of academies for the various sports disciplines is key to sustaining success in sport and aiming to make South Africa a leading sports nation in the continent, and highly regarded internationally. Education, in particular schools, should be made an integral part of sports development in the country. Basic facilities must be developed to facilitate mass participation in all the

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sports disciplines in our country. A bigger pool from where sports stars can emerge would be real when more people participate. This programme should be phased in over a number of years and be budgeted for.

2.25 On the international front we express our appreciation that the effort at the level of party-to-party interaction complemented the work of government in lobbying for South Africa’s admission into BRIC, to make it BRICS. This is a point for celebration.

a. Our work with former liberation movements must come up with concrete results in 2011. The first concrete outcome will be the identification of struggle heritage sights in the continent. The second outcome will be an increase in trade volumes in the continent and the region in particular.

b. The question that must be answered is what role should the party play in the debate about the transformation of the United Nations and its institutions.

c. We need to begin a concerted effort of mobilising and educating our society around COP 17. We should develop an understanding of the challenges posed by climate change. Furthermore, we must begin to pay attention to issues of sustainable development and the potential benefits of a green economy for our country.

2.26 Ministries must provide the ANC with points of call when there are offers mainly from the private sector to participate in major programmes and projects. This is essential if we are to defeat the perception that it is difficult to access the ministries running projects. This perception goes with the one that these major projects are distributed among those who are politically connected. Such points of call must be at the most senior level, at the least, at the level of DDG. Typical examples of the projects that need referral from the various ministries will be the infrastructure projects. If there is commitment to give space to Independent Power Producer to be part of the solution to our energy crisis, it is essential that we know exactly where in government we need to refer those who claim to have secured funding.

3 IMPROVING ORGANISATIONAL CAPACITY TO DRIVE IMPLEMENTATION

3.1 The ANC must have the necessary organisational capacity not only to drive the implementation of these programmes, but also to monitor and evaluate the impact they make on the lives of our people. This capacity is not only technical but organisational too.

3.2 A fully-fledged monitoring and evaluation unit must be established in the Policy Institute. It must be headed and led by an NEC member, and must have a technical capacity that will do the scientific work.

3.3 The Imvuselelo campaign focusing on membership recruitment must be seen on a broader context of developing more organisational capacity for the ANC. The organisational network of strong ANC branches is critical for effective monitoring. 1 million members by December 2012 remains a realistic target. This target can only be achieved if our membership system is efficient and effective in auditing members in the run up to elective conferences. Our auditing should about helping as many branches and members as possible participate in ANC legitimate activities. The current trend where auditing is seen as being used to manipulating outcomes of elective conferences must changed. An independent auditing unit must be established and avoid recycling the organisers into auditors. We must deal with the phenomenon of gate-keeping, which prevents many people from joining the African National Congress. The ANC is the

movement of the people and cannot be kept out of reach for the people.

3.4 Political education must be stepped up. The building of the political school must a priority for 2011. We must avoid downplaying the urgent need to build the school as directed by the 52nd National Conference. The programme in the provinces and nationally should not wait for the physical building of the school. In the medium term the ANC political school must cooperate with the proposed government school/public service academy on the political content of the training of government employees.

3.5 Strengthening the branches of the ANC, RECs, PECs and NEC sub-committees is equally important for the ANC to be effective in its work. The political education programme must cover all the structures of the ANC including the NEC itself. The experience gained in the exchange programmes with the Communist Party of China must help us in structuring this relation.

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ORGANISATIONAL MATTERSJanuary 8th 2011 and Limpopo Provincial Headquarters The NEC complemented the province for hosting a successful, incident-free 99th anniversary of the ANC, which saw a turnout surpassing our expectation and the disciplined behaviour of the crowds despite the unfavourable weather conditions. It noted that this indicated the love our people have for the movement. The NEC further congratulated the province on their illustrious headquarters. It proposed this that this be an example to other provinces.NEC and NEC Subcommittees The NEC proposed that the SGO should develop an evaluation tool for the work of the NEC. The NEC should, therefore, carry out an evaluation at least twice a year The NEC endorsed the newly constituted and realignment of the subcommittees. It further suggested that the SGO should review them in order to ensure there is gender sensitivity and balance across the subcommittees.

On the Western Cape and the North West Provinces, The NEC decided as follows:The North West • The North West Provincial Conference will take place at the end of January 2011.• In preparation for the Conference, a team of NEC members will be sent to the province in order to reinforce the NEC deployees already in the province. The Western Cape• The Provincial Conference of the Western Cape will take place in the second week of February 2011. • The Boland Region Conference should be reconvened, given the numerous irregularities that occurred at the recent conference.

Gender Balance and League Delegations at All ANC Conferences The NEC reasserted the enforcement of the National Guidelines on conferences with regards to delegations and other matters. The NEC also reaffirmed the principle that provisions of the constitution that are explicit in the case of the National and Provincial structures should be applicable mutatis mutandis at regional level, where there are democratically elected structure. Therefore, the same applies to gender balance in terms of delegations to all conferences. In this regard, gender balance must be enforced and upheld without compromise, starting at branch level in the lead up to any conference of the ANC. The NEC went further to propose that the constitutional lacuna (gap) on gender and the League, in reference to regional structures, should be closed. In this regards, the SGO should present a constitutional amendment on the issue at the next National Conference.

Policy InstituteThe NEC agreed that The institute should be realised within the term of office of the present leadershipA range of funding mechanisms be developed towards this objectiveProgressive academics and professionals should be mobilised to assist and strengthen the research capacity and policy development of the movement

Alliance SummitThe NEC agreed that the Alliance Summit, as informed by the Secretariat meeting, would be held in mid-February 2011.

ANC NEC LekgotlaThe NEC decided that, Starting from this year, the Lekgotla would be held every July month of every year. This is to enable the NEC to input and influence the processes of government.The New Growth Path (NGP) should be adopted as the framework for implementation. However, in the course of implementation, the conceptual framework could be engaged with towards reaching the desired end.On EducationThe NEC noted that as a result of the ANC prioritising education as one of its five apex projects, certain positive developments are beginning to show. In this context, the NEC • Complemented the 2010 matriculants for good results• Urged that the government should speed up the building of the universities of Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape• Noted that tertiary accommodation is a serious matter for students, and this must be attended to immediately• Called on Government to take up the matter of career guidance as a matter of urgency• Supported the process of centralising application to tertiary institutions• Called on the movement to report cases where students who qualify for government funding are informed they could not apply if they had no registration fee. The fact is, students who qualify DO NOT PAY this fee.

DECISIONS OF THE NEC

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BY PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA

We need to give direction in the Lekgotla and desist from engaging in endless theoretical debate. We should give direction to government and to our deployees if we are to achieve what we committed ourselves to.

The political school will be built this year. The property is there.

We should begin now with the centenary preparations. In September there should be a report to the NEC, from the Centenary Team, on the preparations and what exactly will be happening in 2012.

Unity is essential to our movement. We cannot take it lightly.We are agreed that we should revive Masupatsela.

The NEC asked for a briefing on the situation in Ivory Coast. The situation is really complex and we are working with various relevant governments in the West of Africa. It suffices to say that there seems to have been a collective of errors, which we are trying to deal with. With the aim of finding a solution, South Africa has proposed a committee to clarify the matters, by analysing what happened and present to the AU Summit. The option is a political one. Presently we want a situation that would allow diplomacy to reign.

CLOSING REMARKS

Unity is essential to our movement

Priority Sectors For Job Creation

* Infrastructure - 250 000 (public investment - construction, operations maintenance and supplier industries

* Mining - 140 000 (up-scaling of mining output and beneficiation)

* Broad based manufacturing - 350 000 (sectoral manufacturing outside of agriculture)

* Tourism - 225 000 (cultural industries and knowledge economy)

* Business services - 50 000

* Green economy - 300 000 by 2020, and 400 000 by 2030 (biofuels, solar and wind energy manufacturing)

* Knowledge economy - 100 000 (ICT, higher education, healthcare, new technologies, mining-related technologies, pharmaceuticals & biotechnology)

* Social economy - 260 000 (non-profit producers, co-ops and social investment vehicles)

* 10% growth of the public service (EPWP, and new youth schemes)

* Rural Development - 500 000 (infrastructure, marketing institutions, education and skills)

* African regional development - 150 000 (exports of goods and services, business and logistics services

* In addition the Lekgotla instructed all government departments in all spheres of government to come up with ways and means of creating jobs in their respective areas

We, the People of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know:■ that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no

government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of all the people;

■ that our people have been robbed of their birthright to land, liberty and peace by a form of government founded on injustice and inequality;

■ that our country will never be prosperous or free until all our people live in brotherhood, enjoying equal rights and opportunities;

■ that only a democratic state, based on the will of all the people, can secure to all their birthright without distinction of colour, race, sex or belief;

■ And therefore, we, the people of South Africa, black and white together equals, countrymen and brothers adopt this Freedom Charter;

■ And we pledge ourselves to strive together, sparing neither strength nor courage, until the democratic changes here set out have been won.

The People Shall Govern!■ Every man and woman shall have the right to vote for and to stand as a

candidate for all bodies which make laws;■ All people shall be entitled to take part in the administration of the country;■ The rights of the people shall be the same, regardless of race, colour or sex;■ All bodies of minority rule, advisory boards, councils and authorities shall

be replaced by democratic organs of self-government.

All National Groups Shall have Equal Rights!■ There shall be equal status in the bodies of state, in the courts and in the

schools for all national groups and races;■ All people shall have equal right to use their own languages, and to develop

their own folk culture and customs;■ All national groups shall be protected by law against insults to their race

and national pride;■ The preaching and practice of national, race or colour discrimination and

contempt shall be a punishable crime;■ All apartheid laws and practices shall be set aside.

The People Shall Share in the Country’s Wealth!■ The national wealth of our country, the heritage of South Africans, shall be

restored to the people;■ The mineral wealth beneath the soil, the Banks and monopoly industry shall

be transferred to the ownership of the people as a whole;■ All other industry and trade shall be controlled to assist the wellbeing of the

people;■ All people shall have equal rights to trade where they choose, to manufacture

and to enter all trades, crafts and professions.

The Land Shall be Shared Among Those Who Work It!■ Restrictions of land ownership on a racial basis shall be ended, and all

the land re-divided amongst those who work it to banish famine and land hunger;

■ The state shall help the peasants with implements, seed, tractors and dams to save the soil and assist the tillers;

■ Freedom of movement shall be guaranteed to all who work on the land;■ All shall have the right to occupy land wherever they choose;■ People shall not be robbed of their cattle, and forced labour and farm

prisons shall be abolished. All Shall be Equal Before the Law!■ No-one shall be imprisoned, deported or restricted without a fair trial; ■ No-one shall be condemned by the order of any Government official;■ The courts shall be representative of all the people;■ Imprisonment shall be only for serious crimes against the people, and shall

aim at re-education, not vengeance;■ The police force and army shall be open to all on an equal basis and shall

be the helpers and protectors of the people;■ All laws which discriminate on grounds of race, colour or belief shall be

repealed.

All Shall Enjoy Equal Human Rights!■ The law shall guarantee to all their right to speak, to organise, to meet

together, to publish, to preach, to worship and to educate their children;■ The privacy of the house from police raids shall be protected by law;■ All shall be free to travel without restriction from countryside to town, from

province to province, and from South Africa abroad;■ Pass Laws, permits and all other laws restricting these freedoms shall be

abolished.

There Shall be Work and Security!■ All who work shall be free to form trade unions, to elect their officers and to

make wage agreements with their employers;■ The state shall recognise the right and duty of all to work, and to draw full

unemployment benefits;■ Men and women of all races shall receive equal pay for equal work;■ There shall be a forty-hour working week, a national minimum wage, paid

annual leave, and sick leave for all workers, and maternity leave on full pay for all working mothers;

■ Miners, domestic workers, farm workers and civil servants shall have the same rights as all others who work;

■ Child labour, compound labour, the tot system and contract labour shall be abolished.

The Doors of Learning and Culture Shall be Opened!■ The government shall discover, develop and encourage national talent for

the enhancement of our cultural life;■ All the cultural treasures of mankind shall be open to all, by free exchange

of books, ideas and contact with other lands;■ The aim of education shall be to teach the youth to love their people and

their culture, to honour human brotherhood, liberty and peace;■ Education shall be free, compulsory, universal and equal for all children;

Higher education and technical training shall be opened to all by means of state allowances and scholarships awarded on the basis of merit;

■ Adult illiteracy shall be ended by a mass state education plan;■ Teachers shall have all the rights of other citizens;■ The colour bar in cultural life, in sport and in education shall be abolished.

There Shall be Houses, Security and Comfort!■ All people shall have the right to live where they choose, be decently

housed, and to bring up their families in comfort and security;■ Unused housing space to be made available to the people;■ Rent and prices shall be lowered, food plentiful and no-one shall go hungry;■ A preventive health scheme shall be run by the state;■ Free medical care and hospitalisation shall be provided for all, with special

care for mothers and young children;■ Slums shall be demolished, and new suburbs built where all have transport,

roads, lighting, playing fields, creches and social centres;■ The aged, the orphans, the disabled and the sick shall be cared for by the

state;■ Rest, leisure and recreation shall be the right of all;■ Fenced locations and ghettoes shall be abolished, and laws which break up

families shall be repealed.

There Shall be Peace and Friendship!■ South Africa shall be a fully independent state which respects the rights and

sovereignty of all nations;■ South Africa shall strive to maintain world peace and the settlement of all

international disputes by negotiation – not war;■ Peace and friendship amongst all our people shall be secured by upholding

the equal rights, opportunities and status of all;■ The people of the protectorates Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland

shall be free to decide for themselves their own future;■ The right of all peoples of Africa to independence and self-government shall be recognised, and shall be the basis of close co-operation.

THE FREEDOM CHARTER

Let all people who love their people and their country now say, as we say here:THESE FREEDOMS WE WILL FIGHT FOR, SIDE BY SIDE, THROUGHOUT

OUR LIVES, UNTIL WE HAVE WON OUR LIBERTY.Issued by the African National Congress, Chief Albert Luthuli House, 54 Sauer Street, Johannesburg, 2001. Telephone: 011 376 1000.