Call for ANC's renewal

POLICY DIRECTION: A BETTER LIFE FOR ALL MUST RETURN, SAYS MBEKI

- Vhahangwele Nemakonde

CONCERNED. Former president Thabo Mbeki admits the ANC has attracted wrong people.

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Former ANC president Thabo Mbeki has commended the party's provincial task team members for using its two-day political school to address real issues.

Mbeki addressed the provincial task team political school in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday and urged members to position the ANC as a party that brings solutions to the masses.

"Do you remember the slogan that the movement used? A better life for all. What the ANC was about was ensuring that the people got a better life. That hasn't changed. In terms of the focus of the real ANC, the real ANC will continue to say 'Our real task is to ensure a better life for our people'," said Mbeki.

"Of course, in the meantime, there are many, many other people, as you know, who entered the ANC and the ANC has spoken about this very openly, that once we became a governing party, we started attracting the wrong people.