adminAt the event, no fewer than 13 policy documents will be discussed over four days, ahead of the African National Congress’ national conference in December.
About 3 554 delegates will attend the policy conference.
They will review the ANC’s policies, the progress it has made in reaching its strategic objectives, and the state of the organisation.
The policy conference at Gallagher Estate is being held in the ANC’s centenary year, and after almost 19 years in power.
On the release of the policy documents in March, Jeff Radebe, head of the ANC national executive committee policy sub-committee, said: “The ANC’s policy conference in June will take place within a paradigm shift in the approach of the ANC towards the economic development of our country.”
In his 8 January statement, ANC president Jacob Zuma said: “Political emancipation without economic transformation is meaningless, that is why we have to commit ourselves to economic freedom in our lifetime.”
This thinking is developed in a key document up for discussion: “The Second Transition: Building a national democratic society and the balance of forces in 2012”.
Also known as the strategy and tactics paper, it suggests that the ANC has concluded its first transition into democracy, which focused mainly on political emancipation. — Sapa.
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