Zuma faction stalls on mining
While the policy conference was a measure of where the stronger power base lay, a lot could change in the less than six months to the national elective conference in December
President Jacob Zuma and his allies came out of the ANC national policy conference weaker and on the retreat. But while the policy conference was a measure of where the stronger power base lay, a lot could change in the less than six months to the national elective conference in December. In his closing address, Zuma insisted that there were no winners or losers. But it was clear that his supporters had not succeeded in many policy positions put forward at the conference, which ended at Nasrec, near Soweto, on Wednesday. In a week of side squabbles and policy proxy battles for succession, little emerged that provided any real solutions to critical problems facing the country, particularly the economic crisis amid a recession. Zuma and allies fought for land expropriation without compensation, changing the mandate of the Reserve Bank, the concept of white monopoly capital and for the party to endorse the Mining Charter. None of these positions solidified except a recommendation on st...
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