Eastern Cape ANC secretary Lulama Ngcukayitobi has called for the country to cut its economic relationship with the state of Israel.This comes after the party and its alliance partners in the Eastern Cape held a picket in East London calling for the boycott of Israeli goods.
The ANC in the Eastern Cape is set to finally replace its senior provincial leaders who were elected to the party’s national executive committee (NEC) as it intensifies its efforts to drum up support ahead of the 2024 general elections.
SACP provincial secretary Xolile Nqatha says struggle icon Chris Hani would have wanted to see the government prioritising service delivery while the needs of the poor and working class take centre stage. Nqatha was delivering the Chris Hani Memorial Lecture at NU 10 Hall in Mdantsane on Sunday afternoon.
The ANC in the Eastern Cape has announced that it is against the expectation that SA should arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin should he visit the country for a Brics summit in August.
The Eastern Cape ANC has described the decrease of the province’s unemployment rate from 47.9% in the fourth quarter of 2020 at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic to 42.1% in the same period in 2022, as a “watershed moment”.