By Amy Musgrave
The African National Congress’ international relations and cooperation unit has met for the first time since the formation of the Government of National Unity, acknowledging that it needs to do more to influence the global agenda.
“The retreat acknowledged that towards the [latter] decade, our coherent approach to the African Agenda lost momentum, and we see it in the pushback of Africa’s influence and sovereignty,” the party said on Sunday.
The party has, therefore, decided to establish of a foreign policy think tank, which will include a focus on building party-to-party relationships.
“Our national interest and the African agenda are complementary, and key to our mission is to work with the masses of our people and the motive forces, to tackle head-on the triple challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequality,” the party said in statement.
“We must also work towards strengthening the Pan-African women’s [movement], the revival
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