We already know what ‘radical economic transformation’ means, says Enoch Godongwana
The head of the ANC economic transformation subcommittee wants talks at the policy conference to focus on how to give effect to it
The ANC will start discussions on its economic transformation document on Monday, which is set to stir heated debates.The main issues of contestation are expected to be over land redistribution, mining, white monopoly capital and radical economic transformation.The head of the party’s economic transformation subcommittee, Enoch Godongwana, said he did not want to pre-empt the debates. However, on radical economic transformation, he did say that this had been formulated at the 2012 conference in Mangaung, under radical socioeconomic transformation and democratic consolidation."These two are combined together and … we added two dimensions for the benefit of poor communities and social cohesion," he said on the sidelines of the conference.Godongwana said President Jacob Zuma, in his state of the nation address, had established what radical economic transformation meant, and this was accepted by the ANC lekgotla."The question is, should we — in the light of the president having made an ...
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