A people-driven state is required for national renewal

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OPINION| A people-driven state is required for national renewal - The ANC must revisit the Freedom Charter and loosen its grip on centralised control that puts the party first

in December, observers’ eyes and ears should not only be trained on politicians and factions. Instead, the resolutions of the conference, as the party’s highest decision-making body, must be assessed so as to perceive the party’s next chapter., the party recognises that its shift from a liberation movement to government has given rise to problems of capacity and organisation.

There is no case to be made for an East-Asian type developmental state which runs contrary to the democratic principles of both the state and the ANC. The recent failures of the state, illustrated in the reports of the, read together with the incapacity, historical disparity and the constitutional mandate requiring meaningful citizen participation, prove that a statist approach is inappropriate and insufficient.

The Constitution also takes forward the conviction that the people shall govern. It empowers and charges all people to actively participate in building a transformed country. Collaboratively, “we” must “heal the divisions of the past and establish a society based on democratic values, social justice and human rights … and build a united and democratic South Africa”.

In its 2017 national conference report, the ANC undertook to recognise and address its shortcomings, which it described as “a loss of confidence in the ANC because of social distance, corruption, nepotism, arrogance, elitism, factionalism, manipulating organisational processes, abusing state power, putting self-interest above the people”.

 

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Simple, claens itself of Scoundrels and thieves. Put country and people first.

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