The ANC’s new Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula was in the hot seat in front of the media on Tuesday, where he justified his party’s costly fundraising activities ahead of the ANC’s 111th-anniversary celebration set to take place in the Free State this weekend. The party will also reconvene its 55th National Conference later this week in a hybrid format after it adjourned at Nasrec in Johannesburg in December 2022.