The African National Congress in Parliament will hold a mid-term review caucus for three days starting on Friday, the office of chief whip Jackson Mthembu said.
“The mid-term review lekgotla is being held in the middle of the five-year term of Parliament to conduct a thorough assessment and appraisal of the implementation of the ANC programmes and policies as well as to take stock of its performance,” his spokesman Moloto Mothapo said.
The lekgotla will be attended by all ruling party MPs in both houses of the legislature and will be addressed by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe and the leaders of several sub-committees of the party’s National Executive Committee.
Mothapo said the ANC would discuss Parliament’s role in advancing policy objectives, the “prevailing political status quo” within the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces and ideas on enforcing parliamentary oversight.
“This lekgotla of the majority party in Parliament must therefore emerge with important interventions on a wide range of political issues to reinforce this institution’s constitutional function, particularly in the light of the prevailing political climate in the country.”
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