The ruling ANC alerted members of the media that they would be expected to pay to cover the conference at Nasrec, which gets under way in 37 days and where delegates will vote for new leadership. 'We don’t want you complaining about water, we want to ...
The media will for the first time have to pay to cover the ANC’s 55th national elective conference scheduled for December 16 to 20, the ruling party announced on Wednesday.
“The ANC is not looking to profit from this exercise, but we want to accommodate everyone – we don’t want you complaining about water, we want to make sure that all of your requirements are met.” “We will do our best to make sure that we accommodate your requirements, like we have always done in the past. If the exercise succeeds, it then allows me to create a bigger space for the media. In the last policy conference we had over 300 journalists here, so if we don’t meet each other halfway, it will be difficult.”
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