PRESS STATEMENT BY THE WEST RAND REGIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS ON THE 9TH REGIONAL CONFERENCE

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PRESS STATEMENT BY THE WEST RAND REGIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS ON THE 9^TH REGIONAL CONFERENCE

The West Rand Regional Executive Committee of the African National Congress would like to thank all the delegates from branches across the West Rand region for a successful conference held from the 17^th to the 19^th October 2014. This Conference held under the theme “UNITED IN ACTION TO REPOSITION WEST RAND FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF RADICAL SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION” reaffirmed our commitment to united action of ensuring the consolidation of people’s power in advancing the transformative agenda of our social and economic outlook.

 

The REC would like to further thank our allies, the South African Communist Party, COSATU and SANCO with their valuable contributions during the conference. We would also like to thank our stalwart comrade Aziz Pahad who graced our conference with his sterling address, reflecting on our historical mission as an organisation both here at home and in the global society.

 

The 9^th Regional Conference will go down in history in that it was held during the month of October, a month of our most humblest leader comrade OR Tambo the late President - General of the ANC who led the organisation under very trying times of our struggle for freedom for 30 years.

 

The month of October is a revolutionary month that must in the main be about strengthening the unity of our organisation and the Alliance, something OR Tambo lived for both in theory and practice.

 

The conference was better defined by four key focus areas from which delegates adopted resolutions namely, Organisational Renewal, Radical Social Transformation, Radical Economic Transformation and Transformation of the State and Governance. These resolutions as adopted will serve as guidance to the newly elected REC in the next 3 years of its term.

 

The newly elected leadership collective working together with ANC branches, MKMVA and the Leagues shall champion the unity of the alliance and the people of West Rand and shall serve a game-changer in the politics of the region noting the mandate thrust upon it by ANC branches.

 

As we reposition the Region, over the next three to six years we shall focus on developmental approaches that seek to better the lives of the people of West Rand. This shall be done in an integrated manner in order to harness the work of ANC Parliament Constituency Offices, Provincial Government Departments and municipalities in particular as drivers of our developmental agenda for the people of West Rand. Throughout, the ANC REC will serve as the strategic centre in the Region providing the necessary leadership.

 

Conference took a firm stance on repositioning and turning the West Rand Region around, whereby every public representative and strategic cadre from the region will be ambassadors for development across our Region. This approach to our historical task to our people will be done through our municipalities and we appeal to provincial and national government to support our efforts to turn this Region around.

 

While observing the continuous building of vibrant and dynamic branches supported by the REC and Sub-regional structures, we will ensure that our approach is informed by consistent political education of our members, membership recruitment, renewal and campaigns including those on international solidarity.

 

Constant engagement with the membership and local communities on the West Rand will be at the centre of our organisational renewal programme, this being complemented by embracing modern methods of making contact, including technology thus complementing our traditional interaction methods.

 

Conference committed the REC and all structures of the ANC to give undivided attention to our Leagues, both in terms of its leadership and membership. The next three years will be used to ensure that the leagues of the ANC play an important role in sustaining the significance of the ANC to the constituencies we serve. The ANC in the Region has further committed to work with the MKMVA to ensure that they are integrated in the programmes of the ANC and the plight of ex-combatants receives the attention it deserves.

 

Importantly, the ANC West Rand conference delegates reaffirmed the 12^th ANC Gauteng Provincial Conference stance on the review of the E-toll system.

 

Conference further endorsed the progressive efforts towards the Gauteng Global City Region, in the context of ensuring better living conditions for our people and advancing social and economic development. We have therefore recommitted ourselves to the advancement of Vision 2021 of working towards a Metro form of government on the West Rand by 2021. The leadership collective shall consequently continue to pursue measures in respect of the legalisation of transitional arrangements in this regard and commence working as a unicity as part of preparing for a metro system of government for the 2021 Local Government Elections.

 

Conference further called that all service delivery response teams in municipalities across our region be reactivated and all service delivery queries from our society be attended to promptly.

 

Under our theme “UNITED IN ACTION TO REPOSITION WEST RAND FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF RADICAL SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION”, Branch delegates at the 9^th conference of the ANC West Rand Region elected a leadership collective that will ensure that all resolutions taken at this historic conference are implemented without fear or favour. The following are members of the ANC West Rand Regional Office Bearers as elected:

 

Regional Chairperson                  : Boyce Maneli

Regional Deputy Chairperson    : Mzikayifani Elias Khumalo

Regional Secretary                        : Sanele Ngweventsha

Regional Deputy Secretary         : Maphefo Mogale-Letsie

Regional Treasurer                       : Olivia Caldeira

 

Issued by

Mzi Elias Khumalo

Communication Unit

ANC West Rand Region

Tel: 011 411 0303

Baleseng...@randfontein.gov.za

 

 

 

 

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