Radical Economic Transformation: ANC's remedy to what initially started the rot
The track record of 20 years of transformation is a deficient state and exclusive growth Although the ANC does not share President Jacob Zuma’s complacency about the economy, it shows little sign of the rethinking needed to reverse the country’s downward slide. With a tweak here and there, its remedy is more of what has caused many of our problems in the first place: policies aimed at radical economic transformation during the second phase of the national democratic revolution.The ANC admits in its series of nine discussion documents for its national general council meeting in October that the national democratic revolution is in "grave danger" from "money politics", violent conflict among tripartite alliance partners and other factors. But it also says "market capitalism" and "neoliberal ideology" have "lost their shine", so that the "balance of forces" has shifted in favour of "social transformation".Other documents are less alarmist in tone. Some acknowledge SA’s worsening econom...
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