Ramaphosa reiterates call for unity within ANC
Speaking at the first Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Memorial Lecture in Johannesburg, President Cyril Ramaphosa says the late activist was committed to unity within the ANC.
The ruling party has been plagued by in-fighting and factions even after its 54th National Elective Conference in Nasrec in December last year.
Ramaphosa says the ANC must unite especially with South Africans heading to the polls next year.
"The ANC must be united like a rope - we must bring together and weave together the various strengths. We must bring together the strengths that our membership brings about, the strengths that are brought by the youth, women and men," Ramaphosa said.
Ramaphosa continued to say the party needs to learn from the mistakes it has made over the past ten years.
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He says issues of state capture and corruption has seen a reversal of post-democracy efforts.
"The last decade has seen many of the gains of the early years of democracy reversed through state capture and corruption, a failure of collective leadership, policy uncertainty and a growing distance between the people, their movement and their government. We have had to come to terms with the erosion of the values of the ANC and confront difficult questions about the quality and integrity of our leadership as the ANC," he said.