takes us back to performance management and the absolute necessity to have an agreement on what outcomes must be achieved when there is pressure on expenditure the sustained funding of priorities over the mtef period is critical to ensure the incremental realisation of the anc’s policy position over the period clearly there will be new emphasis over the mtef given that the anc is going to its policy and national conference next year the strategic outlook of the anc strategy and tactics is its application applied in the continuity of change process