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ANC flags seen at the party’s January 8 Statement Rally in North West.
The African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee (NEC) will kick off its three-day Lekgotla in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg, this Saturday morning.
The meeting will be attended by party representatives from across the country, deployed as Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Premiers, and Executive Mayors.
They will seek to put in place a working plan to implement the six priorities outlined in the January 8 Statement delivered in the North West province a fortnight ago.
The ANC NEC Lekgotla is expected to put the 6 priorities outlined in the party’s January 8 Statement, into a plan of action. Party representatives from all 9 provinces will attend the Lekgotla#MorningLive #SABCNews
— SABCNews_MorningLive (@MorningLiveSABC) January 24, 2026
The gathering is expected to be a crucial one ahead of this year’s local government elections.
ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula says, “Two billion of municipal infrastructure grant has returned back and there are potholes. Where is the bottleneck? What are the challenges? So those are the things we’re going to address and therefore, fixing local government, the economy. If you look at the poor provinces and so on and the industrialisation program in our manifesto, how far we have gone in implementing it and creating jobs. We have offshoots that are positive about our economy, so how do we build on that?”
[WATCH] ANC LEKGOTLA
The ANC Lekgotla will be focused on how do we put the January 8th statement and the 6 priories outlined into action. It’s going to address local government, such as service delivery concerns. Example the North West returned approximately 2 billion of the… pic.twitter.com/nxW1o0DsIQ
— ANC SECRETARY GENERAL | Fikile Mbalula (@MbalulaFikile) January 20, 2026
