POLICY DISCUSSIONS
CAROL PATON: Anti-Gupta gears will grind under radical noise at ANC conference
Team Zuma may seem to be the winners, but more and more of the party members are becoming restless
Everyone who is anyone in the ANC will be at the national policy conference, which starts in Johannesburg on Friday. Everyone except the three most influential people in the movement: Atul, Ajay and Rajesh. The Guptas, everybody knows, run the country, pulling the strings in the ANC through President Jacob Zuma and a large network of national and provincial cabinet ministers, government officials and executive and board members of state-owned enterprises. Since this became widely known, Zuma and the Guptas – with the help of UK public relations (PR) firm Bell Pottinger — have tried to distract attention from this by popularising the narrative that white monopoly capital, which has kept the country’s wealth in white and foreign hands, is the real enemy of the state and the people. As bizarre as it might seem, these two narratives — the theft of the country by three Indian businessmen in league with the president versus a Marxist concept from the 1960s, given new life by a shameless L...
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