Umamah Bakharia 

The ANC prepares for the second day of its 6th National Policy Conference where delegates will resume with commissions to discuss the various policy documents.

ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe confirms that delegates have adopted credentials after a day of discussions.

Briefing the media on Friday, ANC NEC Thabani Makwetla on the strategy balance of forces policy document which was presented to the delegates during a closed session deliberation.

He says the document and discussion evaluates the ANC’s performance over the years.

However, Makwetla says a success of the ANC is the growing of the middle class amongst the black people. Adding that the party has lost a hold of the middle class.

The conference, according to Febe Potgieter, was helmed by the organisational renewal policy document.

Potgieter says the document indicated that the governing party is in a crisis as it’s 55th national elective conference in December will be a “make or break conference for the party.”

“It isn’t business as usual. It’s either we let the organisation sink, or we get serious about renewal,” says Potgieter, addressing the delegates during a media briefing.

On Friday, ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa delivered a speech calling for the renewal and unity of the party.

“This Policy Conference should be seen as a festival of ideas, where the ANC lives up to its role as the leader of society by developing policies that relate to the lived experience of our people where they live to shape the trajectory of our country,” says Ramaphosa.

He reiterated that the party will work to strengthening and prove their oppositions that the ANC will not be divided.