Jan 8 Statement to reflect ANC’s setback in 2024 elections: Ramaphosa

African National Congress (ANC) President Cyril Ramaphosa says the party will use the January 8 celebrations to reflect on the party’s setbacks in the 2024 national and provincial elections and how it can claw back its traditional support.

He was speaking at the party’s fund-raising gala dinner as part of its 113th birthday celebrations in Cape Town on Friday night.

The main celebrations will start at the Khayelitsha sports ground outside Cape Town later Saturday morning.

Ramaphosa says they will have to devise means to reclaim lost ground and reposition the party as the people’s hope.

“We will also speak to the reasons why we suffered the electoral setback and what the ANC needs to claim back the ground and how we can ensure that the ANC regains the trust and the confidence of our people. We have always said that the strength of the ANC lies in its footprint in every ward throughout the country and even as we have gone around here the Western Cape, we have seen that the people still have that love affair with the ANC.”