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File Photo: ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa at the party’s 108th anniversary celebration in Kimberley, Northern Cape, on January 11, 2020, flanked by First Lady Tshepo Motsepe, Under Secretary General Jessie Duarte, Secretary General Ace Magashule and Vice President David Mabuza, among others. Duarte has said that the 109th anniversary of the ANC will be shortened to be in line with lockdown regulations. (Photo: Twitter / @MYANC)
Under Covid-19 regulations, the ANC will have a contained celebration for its 109th anniversary, with 100 people attending an indoor gathering and provincial supporters on live broadcasts. Jessie Duarte, the party’s undersecretary general, and Limpopo’s secretary, the Soviet Lekganyane, provided the details.
In 2021, the 109th ANC celebrations will be reduced to 100 people in Limpopo, Jessie Duarte, the party’s deputy general secretary, said on Friday.
This is in line with the lockdown regulations which stipulate that 100 people or less can be present during an indoor gathering.
“There will be no normal bus movements between provinces, there will be no people coming to a place. There will be no mass demonstrations either, ”Duarte said.
There will be disinfectants at the event and attendees must keep physical distance and wear masks at all times.
In the midst of a second wave of the pandemic, the party will do everything possible to minimize the number of people at its annual celebration on January 8, said the Soviet Lekganyane, the party’s Limpopo secretary.
The event “will take an unusual shape due to the circumstances in which we find ourselves. But we will not deviate one iota; we will ensure maximum compliance with [Covid-19] regulations “.
To ensure that the provinces are not left out, the event in Limpopo will also have smaller venues to watch the speech by ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Last year, Ramaphosa delivered his speech to thousands of people in the Tafel-Lager Park Stadium in Kimberley in the Northern Cape.
In the run-up to the 2021 speech, Monday, January 4 through Friday, January 8, your activities in Limpopo will include a presidential golf day, the laying of wreaths “for fallen comrades” and a Charlotte memorial event. Maxeke, Lekganyane said. .
As the ANC plans to celebrate, there is the matter of Secretary General Ace Magashule, who has been in the spotlight for allegations of corruption and a ruling of the Party Integrity Commission that should be retired. When asked about party members who have been accused of corruption, Duarte said: “The ANC’s NEC is diligently busy with this matter. I am reluctant to undo what the NEC is discussing. Nor can we treat this in a simplistic way, it is a complex matter. “
A month ago, Magashule saying supporters outside a court in Bloemfontein, where there were showed up accused of fraud, corruption and money laundering, that the ANC 2021 celebrations would take place in his home province, the Free State. Last week the ANC NEC Announced to be held in Limpopo.
On why the party had changed places, Duarte said there was no change of place “but there will be an event in Mangaung … We rotate the places every year and this time it is Limpopo’s turn.
Duarte was referring to the smaller provincial meetings in the Free State.
Fewer supporters at the celebration mean fewer costs, but Duarte couldn’t say how much money the match will save. “We are still talking to service providers and negotiating prices,” he said.
Duarte noted that “cost savings was never the main issue. The main problem is not causing cross-infection when people move from one area to another. We don’t want to make the transmission worse as it is. Of course, we’re going to save money, but it sounds so materialistic to focus on just that. It’s about saving lives. ” DM
