THICK END OF THE WEDGE
PETER BRUCE: Bogged down in past as future rushes up
With the ANC policy conference over, are we any closer to even understanding how much trouble we are in?
As expected, the ANC’s 2017 policy conference has not ended particularly well. Delegates fought over everything and by the time of writing, the only "decision" I had heard was that it would withdraw SA from the International Criminal Court. They first made that decision in 2012. They’ll probably make it again in 2022. It is hard to think of a party with as much legitimacy, authority, history, memory and with as much time to prepare for government that has done a worse job of it than the ANC. Apparently its commissions (the working groups ANC conferences divide into) argued the notion of "white monopoly capital" until blue in the face. It is hard to remember now that "white monopoly capital" is merely a slogan (inspired, in a way) dreamed up as part of a public relations drive by a British company Bell Pottinger, for its most recent (and catastrophic) South African client, the Guptas.Sure, white-owned capital still dominates the formal economy and that absolutely has to change. But t...
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