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President Jacob Zuma listed energy, land, local governance and combating corruption as top priorities for the year ahead, as he vowed to take the ruling party back to basics at its 103rd anniversary celebrations in Cape Town on Saturday.
Addressing some 40-thousand ANC supporters in the Cape Town stadium, Zuma said the party should recommit itself to the principles of the Freedom Charter it adopted 60 years ago.
The event seemed to mark the start of the ANC's campaign for next year's local government elections in which the ANC will again try to reclaim those lost votes that have cost it control of the Western Cape and the city of Cape Town.
Zuma conceded that the state of many municipalities was "cause for serious concern".
The ANC brought supporters from around the country to the event, hosted on Democratic Alliance turf, after a week in which Zuma visited poor communities and told them the province was governed by "the wrong people".
