Respect our elders: Dali Tambo
ANC stalwart Oliver Tambo's son, Dali, believes the party should heed the warnings by the party's veterans.
He was speaking on the side lines of the ruling party's Policy Conference being held at Nasrec in Johannesburg.
His comment comes after President Jacob Zuma's opening statement at the conference on Friday which many deemed demeaning.
Dali Tambo believes the statues of ANC stalwarts currently housed outside the main hall at Nasrec, acts as a reminder of the morality required by the ruling party.
"In a sense, by attending this conference, those statues are talking to us and saying remember what's at our core and hold fast to that - and if you do that, if you maintain those moral heights, you can't really go wrong," says Tambo.
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Tambo says the stalwarts' opinions should not be side-lined when it comes to looking at the state of the ANC.
"We have these elders who have walked a very rocky path and who, today, are saying you guys are messing up, you are going wrong and I think we should listen to them, we should engage with them, we should respect them ad we should revere them, because they are out elders and an essential part of the movement."