The Alliance Summit of the ANC, SACP, COSATU and SANCO, led by the leadership of the four organisations, met in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Council from the 4 – 7 April 2002. The delegations were made up of members of both the national and provincial/regional leadership of all the organisations.
The Summit agreed that in the coming weeks and months, we would brief our structures at all levels, about the discussions and outcomes of the Alliance Summit. The final plenary session of the Summit held on 7th April agreed that the Alliance Secretariat should prepare a report for distribution to structures and that this report should consist of:
The ‘Ekurhuleni Declaration of the Alliance’, which constitutes the agreement of the Alliance Summit (Document 2)
The consolidated report of commission discussions on the NDR, Balance of Forces and Building the Alliance (Document 3)
The consolidated report of commission discussions on Growth and Development Commissions (document 4), which includes as an addendum the discussion document presented to the Summit entitled ‘Accelerating Growth and Development’ (Document 5) and that document’s appendixes.
The Summit also agreed that the full reports from each commission and the issues raised in them would be processed by the Alliance secretariat. In this regard the Alliance Secretariat undertook to take forward these issues, through, amongst other mechanisms, meetings of the Alliance Officials, the Alliance Task Teams that would be established to take forward the Growth and Development process, and any other relevant structures.
The documents contained herein have been subject to minor editorial and layout changes since the plenary session (e.g. we have added paragraph numbers for ease of reference). In addition to the above mentioned documents we have included within this report, for the sake of comprehensiveness, a number of other documents: the resolution on Palestine, the report presented to the Summit by the Alliance Secretariat, the Summit Agenda and list of attendees as well as an edited transcript of the President’s Opening Remarks and the Deputy President’s Closing Remarks.