ANC POLICY CONFERENCE: REFLECTION & RENEWAL? NO, BUT TIME TO SHOW OFF RADICALLY TRANSFORMED DANCE MOVES!

The discussion documents have been released in advance of the upcoming ANC policy conference.  I wonder how many of you in attendance will have read, let alone understood the discussion documents.  To those who are in need of a bare bones simplified version, I am happy to oblige.  It will give you  the opportunity to at least engage in the discourse, and who knows, even impress your fellow comrades.  If so, you can then pursue more lucrative opportunities at the year-end elective conference.  

At first glance the discussion documents are sugar- coated in feel good lofty ideals that characterised the political movement of long ago, but no more.  

I do not wish to bore you with in-depth discussion details which may put you to sleep.  So, all you need to know is that the conference is supposed to be focused on policy for the good of the country, but it is now centered on the party's loss of power.  Although the documents profess the need for the party to engage in self-correction and renewal, the underlying message is one of paranoia and protecting vested self-interests.  This means that a litany of real issues, such as state capture, are essentially ignored.  So innately predictable, wouldn't you say?

Perhaps you will consider the urgent need to speak up in the name of renewal and self-correction.  It will be more satisfying than simply dancing the time away with  your comrades.