The African National Congress' (ANC) National Executive Committee (NEC) has emerged from its four-day meeting in Irene‚ Pretoria with strategies for reclaiming the party's lost support in the local government elections. This according to ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe‚ who addressed members of the media on Sunday evening.He said the party was disappointed with the support it has lost in its key constituencies in the elections‚ but that the NEC had reflected on the results and would respond to the demands of the people.The ANC have lost their majority support in the key metropolitan municipalities of Johannesburg‚ Tshwane‚ Ekurhuleni and Nelson Mandela Bay.“The NEC noted that our performance in the 2016 local government elections is a serious setback to the cause of social transformation. The NEC then must agrees to take collective responsibility for the poor performance of the ANC during the elections and we have resolved to take immediate and bold actions to address the weaknesses and shortcomings that contributed the decline of our election support.“We are convinced that the ANC remains the hope of the majority of all South Africans – black and white.“The NEC viewed this outcome as a clarion call of the people to the liberation movement to urgently take steps to speed up the programme of change‚” Mantashe said.He said the ANC NEC would embark on strategies to re-energise its structures and supporters.“This will require us to deal with perceptions of the ANC being arrogant‚ being self-serving‚ being soft on corruption and increasing in distance from its social base‚” he said.Among the measures the NEC will introduce are visits to all provinces to align its structures and deal with the concerns of the people.It will also address the manipulation of processes relating to the selection of candidates‚ give councillors training to provide improved services to citizens and introduce mechanisms to monitor service delivery‚ Mantashe said.Mantashe also said the NEC undertook to deal with issues of factionalism and the state of governance of institutions like South African Airways‚ the South African Broadcasting Corporation and Eskom...