Overview
- Secretary-general Fikile Mbalula’s 294-page mid-term report traces the party’s slide to 2016, notes the 2024 fall to 40.18% and warns that time is short to show delivery.
- President Cyril Ramaphosa urges discipline and humility, tells members to stop flaunting wealth, and pushes a back-to-basics drive to reconnect with voters ahead of 2026.
- Top officials insist leadership changes are off the agenda until 2027 and say Ramaphosa will complete his term, with the National Working Committee probing the source of recall rumours.
- Mbalula defends the Government of National Unity as a necessary tactic, says the ANC holds two-thirds of key ministries, and flags earlier GNU budget failures as a stress test now overcome.
- ANC staff picket outside the venue over unpaid salaries and suspended benefits, with Nehawu calling the payment problems recurring despite the party saying most workers were paid.