Ramaphosa holds first campaign rally for 2024 polls
The leader of the ruling ANC launched the first campaign rally for the 2024 elections, Sunday. He touched on topics including the economy and admitted mistakes.
The needs of South Africans are better met today than they were at the end of the apartheid era, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said at the ruling ANC’s first campaign rally.
The African National Congress held it’s 2019 Election Manifesto review at the Dobsonville Stadium in Soweto on September 3, where President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed a crowd.
The review is a report back on the progress it has made in implementing the party’s policy from the last general elections as the party campaigns for the 2024 general election.
“We want to be as transparent and open as possible about where we have made progress, but also about the mistakes,” he told the assembled crowd, launching a grassroots consultation process that will culminate in a policy programme for the next five years.
Ramaphosa called on voters, who will thus decide whether he gets a second term as leader, not to focus on the negative aspects of his record but to look at the progress made in thirty years.
He listed some of the problems the country has faced recently, including the Covid pandemic which led to the loss of 100,000 lives and two million jobs, as well as riots in 2021 in which more than 350 people were killed, floods and finally the economic consequences of the conflict in Ukraine.
