Among the MANGAUNG RESOLUTIONS on international relations taken AT the 2013 ANC National Congress, quite inconspicuously on page 44 (Chapter 6.39) is a two-point stand-alone statement that: “The ANC is pleased with the successful hosting of the third ANC’s International Solidarity Conference … welcomes the ISC resolutions and therefore commits to set up the ISC’s steering committee responsible for the follow-up and implementation of the ISC resolutions.”
The conference in question was the ANC’s “Third International Solidarity Conference” of October 2012 which led to the TSHWANE DECLARATION of Recommendations. Several paragraphs of the two-page declaration dealt with the ANC’s policy on Israel/Palestine, including the damning statement that “Conference supports the call of civil society’s BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) campaign.”
