LUKANYO MNYANDA: ANC vision of state’s role shoots too low
Draft post-Covid policy shows party has failed to be a force for progressive change over more than 25 years
07 June 2020 - 18:41
I was discussing the ANC’s draft “post-Covid” policy with a friend, and the sad conclusion we came to was that this could have been written at just about any point in SA’s history.
In fact, we might as well be in our 20s again and back at Rhodes University going through any number of policy documents that were doing the rounds then, from Ready to Govern, the policy guideline from 1992, to the Reconstruction & Development Programme, which briefly guided the economic policy of the first democratic government...
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