More Notes on the 2017 ANC Policy Conference: Bereft of Content, Yet Raising Uncertainties

SOUTH AFRICA - Report 07 Jul 2017 by Iraj Abedian

This report elaborates on and explains points in the Note on this topic we published yesterday, July 6.

The much-awaited African National Congress (ANC) mid-term Policy Conference just wrapped up, and as we mentioned in our Note published yesterday, as anticipated, the Conference was far more about critical succession planning than any serious focus on any ideological or socio-economic policy issues. Commentators had long argued that no meaningful policy debate could take place in a milieu in which the Party is split between the Zuma slate and the Reformers. Increasing evidence is coming to light that the Zuma camp is corrupt, captured, and engaged in a systematic erosion of the ANC’s and the State’s governance principles and institutions. The Reformers, on the other hand, are committed to rescuing the Party and its legacy at all cost.

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