premise: South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) has denied reported differences between President Thabo Mbeki and his party deputy Jacob Zuma over ways to heal a rift within the party.
  The party's powerful National Working Committee (NWC) said on Monday evening this emerged from its weekly meeting held in Johannesburg earlier in the day.
  "The NWC received and discussed the joint report of the ANC president and deputy president as mandated by the ANC national executive committee (NEC) on September 9," the committee said in a statement, which was carried by the SAPA news agency.
  "Media reports to the effect that there were differences between the president and deputy president on the substance of the report are false and without basis," it said.
  South African media has suggested that Mbeki and Zuma had been unable to come to an agreement on proposals to deal with tension in party after Mbeki sacked Zuma as the country's deputy president in June and Zuma was prosecuted on two corruption charges.
   What could be expected to happen after the NWC meeting?
hypothesis: a statement, which was carried by the SAPA news agency