Ramaphosa must kick dust on road to 2024 elections – Enoch Godongwana

“It has been far lighter than those conferences, even on substantive debates it has been far lighter than that. There’s a level of maturity in terms of how to handle things.”

For the ANC, the road ahead is 2024 where the party’s electoral support is anticipated to decline even further.

On this, Godongwana said the loss of support was mostly in metros and not rural areas, adding that conference should come out with concrete plans.

“Where we’ve seen the most electoral decline is in the metros and that decline isn’t that people are going to other parties but people who would vote for ANC have disengaged because there’s disgruntlement because we’ve not delivered services here and there.

“The first question that must confront the NEC [national executive committee] is how are we going to hit the ground to understand the challenges, how do we make the necessary interventions and so that by the time people have come to vote they are with us,” he said.