Former Gauteng premier David McClar, who runs the ANC political school, said the party needed to educate existing members and ensure future members were in “good standing in the community”. Ta.
The ANC on Monday launched a compulsory foundation course for all party members. The hope is that this will help the party in its attempts to revive and rebuild following its defeat in the May 29 election.
The party's National Executive Committee (NEC) and its local and local leaders will be among the first to undergo a five-module program on the history, ethics and vision of the ANC, which was introduced at a three-day meeting over the weekend. .
The course is one of a number of measures approved by the NEC, including vetting new members, amending the Integrity Commission's terms of reference and tweaking the step-aside rules.
The ANC is busy working with branch coordinators and party leaders to train 300 members to serve as trainers, with the aim of reaching all members by December 2025.
We believe that political education can help address the factionalism, intra-party discord and lack of ethical underpinnings that enable corruption following the departure of Jacob Zuma.
At the public launch of the course, which will be delivered through the OR Tambo School of Politics, President Cyril Ramaphosa said the course would deepen understanding of the party, its history, ethics and values, and make ANC members “more acute”. Said it would be helpful.
He said the ANC had focused on political education, but this had “diminished over time” and efforts to date had “not been enough”.
Providing members with appropriate training in ethics, history, and policy will strengthen the organization and even enable comrades to rid our organization of tendencies such as sectarianism and deviant tendencies that may spread from our organization. “I will.”
It also says that while some ANC members “do not understand the ANC and do not adhere to its values and ethical standards”, they are focusing “increasingly on the real issues that affect our organization”. You will be able to guess.
Former Gauteng premier David McClar, who runs the ANC political school, said the party needed to educate existing members and ensure future members were in “good standing in the community”. Ta.
60,000 members have received political education through schools, which will now be available to all ANC branches in the country.
The five modules are designed to provide a common understanding of the ANC's values, discipline and vision among members across the country, and to equip members with ethics, and were developed with input from party veterans. I did.
Mr Makula also agreed that the ANC would change the way it recruits, saying it would now ask people “Who are you and why do you want to join the ANC'' to “attract people with the best intentions''? He said he was going to ask.
