FRIDAY BRIEFING | Packing up: The ANC circus is almost done | News24

Subscribers can listen to this articleWhen writing about a news event, there's a golden rule that you should never tell the reader that your story doesn't matter, or is boring, because then no one will read it.

Now, attending last weekend's ANC policy conference at Nasrec, I battled getting around this, because not only was it boring, but I'm also still uncertain about what exactly it meant. One thing was for sure: it was the most subdued, colourless and inconsequential ANC conference I've ever attended – and my first was the mid-term national general council in 2005, in Pretoria, when Jacob Zuma launched his political comeback after being fired.It is common cause the party is at its weakest ever – every objective metric confirms it.

There was no verve, no zip and no creativity – and, above all, no bold plan or political courage to really take the country forward. In this week's Friday Briefing, our political editor, Qaanitah Hunter, and political reporter Juniour Khumalo – as well as myself – run the rule over what could possibly be the ANC's last policy conference as the governing party.

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