The ANC will not lose the Western Cape to DA leader Helen Zille and her "half-apartheid party", the party's treasurer general, Mathews Phosa, has claimed.
Phosa was speaking in the Company's Garden at a May Day event organised by Cosatu and attended by a large crowd.
Speaking mainly Afrikaans, he also addressed the Afrikaans-speaking community, saying he had respect for them and identified with their feeling that they had been discriminated against on a certain level.
"Remember, we are now free to say what we want to in the language of our choice. You must do this," he told the crowd.
Phosa assured those present that the ANC leadership elected in Polokwane would ensure that their problems were resolved.
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He said workers could be proud of their efforts to achieve freedom from any form of oppression.
Phosa also spoke about black economic empowerment, saying that there were fears about minority groups and BEE transactions.
These fears were real, he said, adding that the ANC and its alliance partners would have to reconsider the BEE model and the legislation governing it.
The BEE charters and codes should also be looked at, Phosa said.
He also spoke about the economic challenges facing the country, such as the electricity crisis, and rising fuel and food prices and interest rates.
These were matters of concern that should be discussed, he said.
The government should be strengthened and South Africa's democracy deepened, Phosa said.
He urged the crowd not to allow the DA to take over the province.
"We cannot give the province to a half-apartheid party," he said.
Phosa was followed on the podium by the general secretary of the South African Communist Party, Jeremy Cronin, who urged working-class communities to fight the rises in the prices of food and fuel.
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