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=ANC-GAUTENG PROVINCE MEDIA STATEMENT ON THE LAUNCH OF THE PROVINCIAL IMVUSELELO CAMPAIGN=


 * 22 May 2006**

Yesterday, Sunday 21st May branch, regional and provincial leaders of the ANC, representatives of the ANC Youth League and Women’s League, SACP, COSATU and SANCO, COSAS, SASCO in Gauteng, launched the Imvuselelo/Tsoseletso Campaign at a gathering of Assembly of Cadres at Wembley Indoor Stadium in Johannesburg. The Assembly was attended by 5000 delegates which included a sizeable number of political and military veterans of the movement.

The Assembly was addressed by the following leaders:


 * ANC Gauteng Provincial Chairperson Mbhazima Shilowa
 * ANC Secretary General Kgalema Motlanthe
 * ANC Provincial Secretary David Malemolla Makhura.


 * Motivation behind the Campaign**

Our 9th Provincial Conference held in December 2004 adopted detailed resolutions on the organisational renewal challenges facing our movement since coming into power in 1994. Under the title “The Renewal of the Movement”, the resolution covered a wide range of issues that need to be addressed in the run-up to the ANC Centenary in 2012:


 * Building strong, dynamic and vibrant branches in all the wards;
 * Ensuring sustained political development of the membership and cadreship of the movement to tackle challenges of the current conjuncture;
 * Growing the membership of the ANC across strategic sectors and strata of the province’s population and ensuring that these new members are imbued with the progressive values and culture of the movement;
 * Strengthening the mass character of the ANC and deepening internal democracy and discipline within the structures of the movement;
 * Improving the ANC’s administrative capacity and build long term financial self-sufficiency at all levels of the organisation;
 * Building a strong Alliance and strengthening the movement’s political work within and interaction with organs of civil society.

The Second NGC held in July 2005 also addressed the organisational renewal challenges faced by the movement under the new conditions of freedom and democracy. In particular, the NGC called for a comprehensive organisational review to strengthen and renew the movement in the “new phase of struggle”. In taking forward the resolutions of the 9th Provincial Conference and the NGC, the PEC Lekgotla of January 2006 decided that, after the 1 March 2006 local government elections, we should launch a massive three-month long campaign to interact with membership and build the capacity of our local structures to address local development challenges and give leadership to communities. This Campaign is called “Imvuselelo/Tsoseletso”. It is about the revival and rebuilding of grassroots structures.


 * Objectives of the Campaign**

The primary aim of Imvuselelo Campaign is to build a strong and vibrant ANC in Gauteng, which is capable of providing leadership to all sectors of the population and which is visible in community development efforts and struggles at ward level. This is the kind of ANC that reflects the best human values and progressive aspirations of diverse localities and communities bound by a vision of a non-racial, non-sexist, united, democratic and prosperous society. The primary target of the Campaign is the membership and branches of our movement. As a mass, democratic and revolutionary movement, the ANC exists primarily as a weapon of the people in their struggle for self-emancipation. Its mission is to serve the people in their common quest for a better life. At all times, the ANC is supposed to be organised in a way that makes it possible to serve the people. Its membership and constituent structures should at all times reflect its pre-occupation with serving the people and helping them to collectively and progressively realise a better life.

The following are the specific objectives of the Campaign:


 * Ensure dynamic contact between the leadership and the membership on the one hand, and on the other hand between the ANC branches and communities in which they are located;
 * Rebuild and revive all branches of the ANC, ANCYL and ANCWL and ensure they actively take up development issues affecting their communities;
 * Cultivate leadership qualities and ideological depth and improve basic organisational skills of branch activists so that they can sustain the political vibrancy, values and culture of the movement in the new period;
 * Build proper branches or units in areas where we’ve made in-roads during the 2004 and 2006 Election Campaigns, especially among the White, Indian and Coloured communities;
 * Grow the ANC, through targeted recruitment, in strategic areas and sectors where our potential remains un-explored and ensure the membership of the province is representative of the province’s population;
 * Ensure synergy between the ANC’s organisational and political work in communities and the work of our public representatives;
 * Improve the capacity of branches to lead the governance process at a local level such as the ward committees and the IDP process;
 * Integrate the volunteers into the day-to-day work of the ANC in communities and sustain their participation and political enthusiasm;
 * Strengthening the functioning of the Alliance structures at a local level and ensuring a common approach to addressing community development challenges.

Throughout the campaign, our structures will help us to assess the campaign to ensure that we meet our above mentioned objectives. We are confident that through this Campaign our movement will build and consolidate its rooted-ness among the people.

At the end of the Assembly, certificates were issued to branches and regions which performed well during the 2006 local government elections.


 * Issued by:**


 * David Malemolla Makhura**
 * ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary**

For more information and interviews with the Provincial Leadership, **contact Hope Mankwana Papo** (ANC Gauteng Provincial Spokesperson) on **083 276-3688**


 * From: http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/pr/2006/pr0522.html**

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