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1 organisational report 1. INTRODUCTION 22. THE STATE OF organisational STRUCTURES 4 National Executive Committee 4 National Working Committee 15 NEC sub-committees 15 Communications 16 Economic Transformation 17 Education and Health 19 International Relations 22 Legislature and Governance 25 National Disciplinary Committee 27 National Disciplinary Committee of Appeals 28 Peace and Stability 29 Policy 31 Political Education

2 32 Social Transformation 34 The Head Office 35 iii3. MEMBERSHIP AND PROVINCES Membership Branches Provinces 40 Eastern Cape 40 Free State 41 Gauteng 43 KwaZulu Natal 44 Limpopo 45 Mpumalanga 46 North West 47 Northern Cape 48 Western Cape 49 4. THE LEAGUES 51 ANC Veterans League 51 ANC Women s League 52 ANC Youth League 535.

3 THE ALLIANCE 55 The Alliance Partners The South African Communist Party The Congress of South African Trade Unions The South African National Civics Organisation The functioning of the Alliance 576. THE ELECTORAL PERFORMANCE 597. THE CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS 638. CONCLUSION 65 organisational report BY THE SECRETARY The National Executive Committee (NEC) elected by the 52nd National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC) was given the mandate and responsibility of managing the organisation for five years. This collective constituted the the high-est organ of the ANC between National Conferences with the authority to lead the organisation for the period 2007 to 2012.

4 This NEC has done relatively well in building organisational unity, growing the organisation and mobilising the broadest cross-section of society behind the poli-cies and programmes of the ANC. We have succeeded in ensuring that the presence of the ANC grows throughout the country at a time of significant inter-nal and external challenges. We have done this through working with our people to address their needs. With stronger branches and tighter coordination at re-gional level we can do much This organisational report is an account of the work of the NEC during the last term. It seeks to quantify the progress or lack thereof towards achieving the set objectives of the ANC. Reference will be made to other documents developed dur-ing the period under review, including the election manifesto for the 2009 National and Provincial elections and the 2011 Lo-cal Government election manifesto.

5 Ref-erence will also be made to the various NEC January 08th As acknowledged by the 2010 National General Council the 52nd National Con-ference was a watershed in many respects. That conference not only voted for lead-ership but also voted for organisational renewal and a programme for transfor-mation as contained in the resolutions. In this regard, the 52nd Conference resolved to open the ANC more to the people of South Africa and strengthen it as a true strategic centre of power and a strong and uncontested leader of the alliance. Unity and cohesion of the movement is therefore It would be incorrect not to highlight that this watershed 52nd National Conference was also marked by serious divisions. At the time, the organisation was polarised into two groups; those who mobilised for change and those who fought for a third term for the sitting president.

6 The lobby-ing and mobilisation was so intense that the opposing group viewed each other al-most as enemies, with very high levels of intolerance. This state of affairs continued beyond the conference and the report will set out, in detail, how this NEC worked to address the challenges of division and building organisational unity. The report will remind delegates of the recall of President Thabo Mbeki and the breakaway group that constituted itself into COPE. The transition from the Mbe-ki administration to the administration, led by the Deputy President, comrade Kgalema Motlanthe, provided a point of learning on how to smoothly manage one of the most difficult periods in our gover-nance history. With the National and Provincial elec-tions being so soon after all the upheav-als the leadership had to move with the necessary speed to rebuild structures and capacity of the movement.

7 The Alliance partners proved that a united alliance is of utmost importance in the face of adver-sity. Our performances in both the 2009 and 2011 elections are practical examples of unity being key to our success. The re-port will give a detailed account of alliance relations during the last five The work of the Leagues will be sum-marised. The NEC will account for what members of the ANC could only relate to through public spats and negative me-INTRODUCTION1 organisational report BY THE SECRETARY GENERAL3dia reports. The National Conference will be given a sense of whether the newly launched ANC Veterans League is giving the movement the value that was expect-ed at the point of launching it. Account will be given of the work of the Women s League and what is being done to address the organisational challenges in many of the provinces.

8 Furthermore, Conference will be given an account of the work of the Youth League and the challenges that visited it for the better part of the term. Taking into account the capacity of its structures and Leagues, we should ques-tion whether the movement is operating optimally. The collapse of discipline was raised as a major concern by the National General Council in 2010 and is being attended to. We must, however note that the depth of this collapse will require the constant at-tention of the leadership going forward. There is serious and ongoing work being done to curb incidents of ill-discipline. The successful NGC and Policy Conference helped the organisation consolidate its work for this term. The year 2012 was the centenary year of the ANC.

9 The Centenary celebrations over the weekend of January 08th, 2012 marked the beginning of the yearlong cel-ebrations throughout the country. The movement of the centenary flame from one province to the other has contrib-uted tremendously to our organisational renewal. The lectures have proven a valu-able part of the political education pro-gramme of the ANC. The new signs of divisions and factionalism are a source of worry and concern. The determination by some members of our movement to destabilise the organisation and disrupt meetings with the objective of achieving their goals in conferences or any other structure of the movement are clear signs of a revolutionary movement that is being infiltrated. This was clearly displayed during the centenary celebra-tions when serious attempts were made to disrupt even memorial lectures cele-brating the lives and times of our past and living Presidents of the ANC.

10 The scenes of disruption of the memorial lecture in the Western Cape and the running battles around the venue of the memorial lecture in Limpopo demonstrated how far some members of the ANC could go to advance factional The most important task of the Nation-al Conference is the assessment of the health, effectiveness and responsiveness of the structures of our movement. It is this state of the organisation that will give delegates a sense of the degree of suc-cess registered, failures and challenges confronted and the prospects of success moving forward. The ANC celebrates our centenary and it also marks the beginning of the second hundred years. The founda-tion we lay now will determine the future of our movement and its ability to cele-brate another hundred report BY THE SECRETARY eighty directly elected members of the NEC were as follows.