ANC stalwarts disappointed in ANC Policy Conference

The stalwarts boycotted the first two days of the conference after the ANC declined to hold a separate consultative conference to address the crisis the party finds itself in.

Veterans and one of the signatories of the stalwarts' documents 'For the Sake of Our Future', Faziel Randera, says the ANC's leadership has taken them down the trajectory where they are losing supporters and members.

"Many of the issues that are being discussed today were discussed at the previous policy conference five years ago. We don't have any concerns about what was discussed and what came out of the policy conference, but we do want to emphasise once again that we do not believe that the issues that ail the ANC were discussed," says Randera.

Randera says the Diagnostic Report compiled by ANC Secretary General Gaede Manstashe raised more questions than answers.

"The membership of the ANC needs to ask what are the consequences of those kinds of reports. We know that the ANC NEC said there should be a commission of inquiry into state capture. Was that put at the front of the discussion of the delegates? I don't think so. I have not seen a resolution that withing a week the president must establish the inquiry," says Randera.

Randera says there is still a need for a consultative conference.

"If the ANC does not participate, we will invite everybody, but we will invite progressive groupings."