EKHURULENI - The ANC national general council kicked off in Boksburg on Monday.
Internal succession battles are set to take centre stage.
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The NGC is the second-highest decision-making body between ANC national conferences.
It's meeting under the theme: "The Year of Renewal to Make the ANC a More Effective Instrument of the People to Achieve the Vision of the Freedom Charter."
But does the party have the potential to renew itself or is this just willful ignorance?
Cosatu President, Zingiswa Losi discussed this with eNCA.
Cosatu says its declining membership is largely driven by widespread job losses.
Losi said the ANC's National General Council meeting provides an important platform to reflect and chart a way forward.
She added that ANC renewal and strengthening the tripartite alliance will also be key focus areas.
"COSATU's membership decline is also due to the economic challenges, the economic downturn that we have seen."
"You know that particularly in the private sector many companies have shut down, others are retrenching workers, so it would be also part of that."
"But also the ANC membership's decline would be for many reasons. You would see new parties being formed and members of the ANC are the ones that would have left and joined those new parties."
"But also the importance of this NGC from COSATU's perspective is to talk about the renewal, is to talk about the strengthening of the African National Congress, of COSATU, of the SACP and SANCO and how do we get ourselves back to be the leader of society."
"How do we renew ourselves as a movement, strengthen ourselves as the alliance in order for us to regain the trust of workers, of the working class, of people of South Africa?" she said.
"And we think that from the discussions or the report at least that has been tabled, you will see even on credentials the state of each province and how the ANC has traversed on the renewal path, which we think for us, for any organisation to be able to move forward, it needs to reflect and we think this NGC is a moment of reflection," Losi said.