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<\/div>\nVideos by Timothy Bernard<\/strong><\/p>\n Polokwane – President Cyril Ramaphosa has promised to defend South Africa\u2019s democratic status after last week\u2019s events where the Constitutional Court was vandalised and Parliament in Cape Town burnt down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n He was speaking at the ANC\u2019s January 8 statement in Polokwane, Limpopo where his party was celebrating its 110th anniversary.<\/p>\n Scores of party supporters clad in ANC regalia filled the Old Peter Mokaba Stadium where the event was held.<\/p>\n \u201cOn this occasion of the 110th anniversary of the formation of the ANC, we need to engage in a frank assessment of how far we have gone during the past year in meeting the core mandate defined by the 54th National Conference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201c\u2026and in doing so, we need to understand the domestic and global environment in which we operate.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are many developments that characterise this environment and which inform our programme for the year ahead,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Ramaphosa said that the country would defend South Africa\u2019s democratic gains against attempts to undermine our constitutional order and destabilise democracy.<\/p>\n This is followed by a number of attacks on National Key Points such as the fire in the parliamentary complex and vandalism at the Constitutional Court in the past week.<\/p>\n READ THE FULL ANC JANUARY 8 STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n He also promised to be steadfast in fighting corruption and poor discipline.<\/p>\n \u201cActs of ill-discipline will no longer be tolerated in the ANC. These acts must be acted on decisively. If we do this people will see that we are doing the right thing and regain confidence in the party.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cPeople will see that we are serious about rooting out these deeds.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople have been asking what kind of organisation we have become,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Ramaphosa has received the first part of the State capture report from Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo recently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Ramaphosa also promised renewing and rebuilding the party.<\/p>\n [email protected]<\/p>\n Political Bureau<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Videos by Timothy Bernard Polokwane – President Cyril Ramaphosa has promised to defend South Africa\u2019s democratic status after last week\u2019s events where the Constitutional Court was vandalised and Parliament in Cape Town burnt down. He was speaking at the ANC\u2019s January 8 statement in Polokwane, Limpopo where his party was celebrating its 110th anniversary. Scores […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}