ANC national conference: Do South Africans care?
The African National Congress (ANC) will hold its national
conference at the weekend.
This is the ANC's 54th National Congress. It will see a new leadership elected and changes made to the party's policies.
The conference, and the election of new leadership, has been dominating headlines for most of 2017.
Jacaranda FM News went to the streets of Braamfontien to ask South Africans if they care that the conference is being held.
Meanwhile, the ANC's sub-committee on legislation and governance believes South Africa finds itself at a crossroads.
The committee's chairperson Ayanda Dlodlo held a briefing at the ANC headquarters at Luthuli House on Tuesday.
"The micro-analysis of the state suggest that there are uneasy intersections and confluence of socio-economic, demographic, biological and economic forces that portend a country at a crossroads. This calls for endeavours to shed light and assist in providing a line of sight into the future for those who are preoccupied with planning,"
Dlodlo says to remedy the situation the conference will review government's role in implementing ANC policies, the party's cadre deployment policy, the relationship between the ANC and the state and the municipal funding model.