The biggest takeaway from the ANC’s fifth policy conference is not what the party has resolved, but rather the contentious issues which delegates could not agree on. The pro-Jacob Zuma faction used its numbers, flooding strategic commissions like “economic transformation”, while the other side had stronger arguments, leading to deadlock. The outcome on land expropriation is one of the most striking examples of this.
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