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CONSOLIDATED REPORT ON SECTORAL STRATEGIES
 * ANC National General Council, 29 June - 3 July 2005**

=**__Commissions 7 & 8__**=


 * PEACE AND STABILITY**

Commission resolved as follows:


 * 1. Community Forums**

1.1. To support the establishment of the Community Safety Forums (CSFs);

1.2. To agree that the Community Policing Forum (CPF) be a sub-committee of the CSF and that we identify the role of other peace and stability departments (such as Correctional Services, Home Affairs, Justice and others) in relation to the other sub-committees of the CSF;

1.3. That, within the CSFs, there must be focused attention on crimes committed against women, children, pensioners and disabled persons;

1.4. That ANC structures must elaborate for many communities the role of the CPFs, the other sub-committees and the CSF;

1.5. That the CSFs must be aligned with the municipal Integrated Development Programmes (IDPs) and resourced through relevant national departments and local government structures to meet their minimum requirements.


 * 2. Correctional Services**

That

2.1. There must be proper communication with communities to explain such important programmes as remissions, so that they too can play an important and conscious role in the rehabilitation and re-integration of ex-offenders into communities;

2.2. The government must pay urgent attention to the establishment of Child Safety Homes for children in conflict with the law;

2.3. The Correctional Services White Paper must be made known to the public.


 * 3. Safety and Security**

3.1. To support that there be a single national police service in line with the SA Constitution;

3.2. That the Forensic Science Laboratory must remain within the police services;

3.3. ANC structures to ensure that members as well as farm-workers are encouraged to join the Reservists in order to participate in the promotion of the safety and security of the farm-workers and communities;

3.4. To amend the South Africa Police Services Act to be in line with the South African Constitution within a year;

3.5. To educate the children in schools through civic education programmes about safety and security matters;

3.6. To continue to address the challenges of racism and gender within the police services;

3.7. That the SAPS must engage the Transport Department to facilitate the attainment of driving licences by recruits from disadvantaged communities who may not possess such.


 * 4. Home Affairs**

4.1. That government should intensify the campaigns against crime and corruption within the department;

4.2. The department should intensify the campaign to improve service delivery, in particular as it relates to women, children, the poor and rural people. This should include ensuring that we make it easier for people to attain their documents (without undue obstacles) whilst not compromising the rules and preventing documents being obtained by wrong and undeserving people;

4.3. The ANC should establish a task team to develop an ANC Immigration Policy, to give effect to the Stellenbosch Conference resolution.


 * 5. MK Military Veterans**

5.1. That Defence Advisory Boards need to address the matters of veterans through their reviewal process;

5.2. That the ANC must address the plight of the unemployed and demobilised ex-Combatants;

5.3. To review the age limit (younger than 35) for special pensions;

5.4. To ensure that the Reserve Forces must absorb the majority of the ex-Combatants of the non-statutory forces, especially given the challenges of lack of education and skills among many, which was not out of their own choosing;

5.5. That the government must explore the possibilities of deployment of ex-Combatants in active service such as: border policing, metro police, crime intelligence and uniformed SAPS;

5.6. That in addressing skills development, government should resolve the obstacles in different Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs), and review the management of the Defence SETA;

5.7. That the MKMVA must participate in the NEC Peace and Stability Sub-Committee at all levels;

5.8. That the ANC must provide support, including resources, for MKMVA;

5.9. That relevant government departments, such as Housing, Social Development, Public Works and others must provide assistance and support for ex-Combatants and their associations, and ensure the provision of health services to ex-Combatants through the SA Military Health Service (SAMHS);

5.10. That ANC must set up a Commission to investigate outstanding issues and make recommendations regarding solutions;

5.11. That the ANC must give full support to the new SA Military Veterans Association, which will unify MK, APLA, AZANLA, CMVO, SA Coloured Corps and the TBVC forces.


 * 6. Judiciary**

That

6.1. The ANC must be unequivocal in what it means about the transformation of the judiciary in order to close the information gap between ANC structures, the community and government;

6.2. The ANC should ensure that transformation of the criminal justice system involves transformation of the entire cluster of peace and stability departments;

6.3. NGC support the current process to transform and rationalise all the aspects of our Court structures and personnel, including:

· The establishment of the extensive mechanisms to transform and rationalise the superior court structures, · The establishment of a complete mechanism to deal with grievances against judicial officers, and · The restructuring of the Justice College to provide quality training to judicial officers, prosecutors and other justice officials, without undermining the independence of the judiciary.


 * 7. Intelligence**

That

7.1. NGC notes that with increased resources, the need has arisen to focus on core business such as improved data collection, analysis, assessment, targeted recruitment, training and capacity building.

7.2. Peace and Stability Sub-Committees of the ANC at local levels, as well as CSFs must also find a way dynamically to interact with the intelligence services, which would also drastically improve both the awareness of the role of the intelligence services and cooperation with and support from the community for the services;

7.3. Support the review of the National Security Framework.


 * 8. Peace and Stability Sub-Committee**

That

8.1. The ANC must implement the Stellenbosch resolution to replicate the Sub-Committee at all the levels of our organisation to address the peace and stability challenges;

8.2. The ANC leadership should invite ANC cadres deployed at senior levels in government at different tiers to participate in the Peace and Stability Sub-Committee.

8.3. The ANC Peace and Stability Sub-Committee must be seized with the political challenges reflected by the current social disturbances in various communities.

From: http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/ngcouncils/2005/consolidated_report.html