The organisation's leader Julius Malema was expected to give the
opening address ahead of a speech by the country's Deputy President Kgalema
Motlanthe.
Numerous delegates were toyi-toying and singing at the St
George's conference centre in Irene before the conference started.
Some of the songs being sung were "Bloemfontein 2012, we are
voting for Malema" and "The shower man is troubling us", a reference to
President Jacob Zuma.
Scores of photographers and cameramen filmed and photographed the
delegates.
The event would be Malema's first public appearance since the ANC
announced last Saturday that his appeal against his five-year suspension from
the ANC had been rejected.
He, however, remains a party member until arguments in mitigation
of his sentence have been concluded.