Ramaphosa calls out ANC NEC members for failing to meet their commitments in leaked recording

JOHANNESBURG - A lack of oomph and national executive committee (NEC) members who leave volunteers high and dry.

These are some of the issues raised by African National Congress (ANC) President Cyril Ramaphosa over his party’s elections campaign in an internal meeting.

He also said that his party must target 13 to 14 million of the voter share when the country takes to the polls next month.

Ramaphosa in a leaked audio recording of an NEC meeting last week, which Eyewitness News has heard, shared his thoughts on the ANC's readiness and deployment plans for the May 29th polls.

In it, he complains about NEC members' failure to meet their commitments.

"Sometimes our structures wait and wait and NEC members don’t appear, that deflates them. We’ve got volunteers around the country and we need to reinvigorate them."

Meanwhile, Ramaphosa also confirmed suggestions that the ANC's elections campaign has had some financial challenges.

At the same time, he said that funding would be availed.

"Funding for the campaign is definitely going to be there, we need to fire it up, with boots on the ground. Issue of posters is being resolved, issue of leaflets, we did say at the NWC [National Working Committee], we need to print out millions of leaflets."