Modidima Mannya | The ANC needs to focus on a strategic review session rather than a policy conference
In fact, the ANC needs more of a strategic and governance review session than a policy conference, unless the two mean the same thing.
The governing party’s loss of electoral support and the emergence of several political parties are not about policy issues. None of these political parties have policies as consistent with the Constitution of the Republic as the ANC. This party also developed the “ready to govern” policy document, which had the primary objective to set the tone and guidelines for “the achievement of the right of South Africans to economic and political self-determination” and “to overcome the legacy of inequality and injustice created by colonialism and apartheid …”.
The State Capture Commission is the subject of various court judgments, such as compelling a former president to appear before the commission and when he failed to comply, sanctioned him with a 15-month custodial sentence. With ANC policies mirrored in our Constitution and many pieces of legislation, what is the real reason to spend so much time and resources in a policy conference?Already, the government has conducted a review of all legislation passed since 1994.
There is a clear reason why the ANC should not expend precious time and resources trying to formulate a policy when there is already an adequate body of policy, much of it codified in our Constitution and the subject of court judgments. The real issue which the ANC must discuss and find answers to is not what is to be done but whether those it deploys in government have the desire, will and capacity to implement these policies and constitutional imperatives.
This does not, however, mean that by default, the ANC is absolved from its failings because of its failed deployments.It cannot simply escape moral blameworthiness at the least for its own actions or inactions, which impact adversely on government and consequently on the people.
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