Our promise to you is that we will do better to serve our people in every municipality, deliver better services and build thriving communities.

As the ANC, we have embarked on a path of renewal, rebuilding and revitalisation of our party and society, including the turnaround of local government.

We have resolved to face our problems, together, honestly, openly and boldly. We will be more courageous, more innovative and more ambitious in our actions and programmes to renew and rebuild our country.

Together, we shall rededicate our energy to forge social cohesion, build strong institutions of participatory democracy, revitalise our economy and build a strong, united, non-sexist, non-racial and prosperous South Africa.

We must urgently finalise the social compact between the social partners to achieve our country’s fundamental social transformation to reduce and eradicate the plague of unemployment, poverty and inequality.

We remain committed to making local government and society a better place to work, play and live in and continue to create a better life for all in our beloved South Africa.