Ramaphosa Says ANC Focused on Serving South Africans

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa says the party’s main focus will be improving groundwork to ensure that it returns to its main mission, which is to serve the people of South Africa. He delivered the closing remarks of the special sitting of the ANC National Executive Committee meeting held at the Birchwood Conference Centre in Gauteng. Ramaphosa says the NEC is determined to build branches that are political and not transactional or captured for individual career advancement or sectional interest:

Ramaphosa also says the party’s NEC has called on the government to finalise a policy framework on spaza shops. Nine children died in Naledi, Soweto, and Mdantsane in the Eastern Cape due to suspected food poisoning. Ramaphosa says the government must adopt regulations for the legal operations of spaza shops: