According to an article written by Ebrahim Fakir who is an associate of the Democracy Works Foundation, and on the Advisory Council of the Council for the Advancement of South Africa’s Constitution; he has this to say about the currently concluded ANC Policy Conference:
The ANC policy conference was a lot less policy and a lot more “politics”. It generated a lot of heat. But no light.
It feels like it was a waste of six days. Of fruitless discussion and wasteful expenditure. No one is any the wiser about what the ANC’s plans for society and the economy, are. So it is almost impossible to have a meaningful debate about what the right policy mix is, for South Africa. This is especially urgent in a context of low growth & high unemployment. Yet what emerged from the ANC policy conference is anachronistic. All we know is that the ANC supports some form of radical economic transformation. Supports maintaining the mandate of the Reserve bank as is, and has decided that “white” no longer needs to be used a descriptor of concentrated monopolies in the South African economy.
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