ANC First Deputy Secretary-General Nomvula Mokonyane has vowed that the 112-year-old liberation movement will not die in their hands.

After enjoying impressive electoral support since 1994, the ANC has for the first time lost its majority and is now forced into a Government of National Unity with nine parties.

The party’s top brass is now locked in a three-day NEC meeting which will be followed by the NEC Lekgotla, to reflect on the outcomes of the elections and re-assert the party as the leader of society.

With fears that its future generations will inherit a dying organisation, Mokonyane said the ANC will not die in their lifetime.

“I take a full exception to say we are presiding over a carcass, a party that receives 40 percent and what we are sitting and deliberating on is that it will not become a carcass in our lifetime. And what we are going to do, renewal must not be subjective, recruitment of members must go with political education. The ANC that gets preoccupied with the elections of internal structures must be something of the past and a branch of the ANC that is functional must be measured not on the basis of 100 members but must be on the basis of its programs in the community. So, that it’s not a door-to-door for the first time in five years.”

ANC NEC Meeting outcomes: