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NATIONAL POLICY CONFERENCE | REPORT30TH JUNE 5TH JULY 2017 NASREC EXPO CENTRE, JOHANNESBURG5TH NATIONAL POLICY CONFERENCEREPORT OF THENATIONAL POLICY CONFERENCE | REPORT1 CONTENT1. Foreword by the Secretary General 22. Opening Address by the President 33. Strategy and Tactics 12 4.

NATIONAL POLICY CONFERENCE | REPOT 5 Ahead of the discussions, we need to remind ourselves of the objectives and mission of the movement. The ANC is guided by the objectives of the National

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1 NATIONAL POLICY CONFERENCE | REPORT30TH JUNE 5TH JULY 2017 NASREC EXPO CENTRE, JOHANNESBURG5TH NATIONAL POLICY CONFERENCEREPORT OF THENATIONAL POLICY CONFERENCE | REPORT1 CONTENT1. Foreword by the Secretary General 22. Opening Address by the President 33. Strategy and Tactics 12 4.

2 Organisational Renewal 165. Communications and the Battle of Ideas 266. Economic Transformation 33 7. Education, Health, Science and Technology 408. Legislature and Governance 44 9.

3 Social Transformation 5010. Peace and Stability 5611. International Relations 6312. Closing Address by the President 69 PageNATIONAL POLICY CONFERENCE | REPORTFOREWORD12 This NATIONAL POLICY CONFERENCE was held six months before the end of the term of the NATIONAL Executive Committee elected by the 53rd NATIONAL CONFERENCE .

4 The intensity of debates reflected the transitional nature of the gathering, with delegates preparing policies for the next collective leadership, but faltered into shaping them in the image of the current POLICY debate on economic matters made many to forget that we all have the responsibility to work for unity. We all engaged in shoot outs locked in our positions, not ready to persuade and be persuaded. Is it ideological or positional to fight over the definition of the enemy of the revolution, whether it is monopoly capital or white monopoly capital? We even ignored that monopoly capital include the white ownership within the monopoly capital.

5 When the Strategy and Tactics was presented a serious attempt was made to make comrades understand that the enemy is monopoly capital, which is the form. The domination by the white section of the population, in terms of ownership and control, as a consequence of apartheid/colonialism, make white monopoly capital to be the content. As a consequence of the agitation to choose between the two concepts, and one having to win the debate, delegates shut their ears. We are hoping that the branches will be engaged openly and candidly and be part of finding solutions. We must all sober up; it is not a beauty when we agreed that land redistribution should accelerate, we engaged in a polemical debate about expropriation without compensation.

6 This is correct if qualified as the president did in the closing remarks, and not a blanket position. When we debate the importance of land as a tool for production that can contribute to reduction and ultimately eradicate poverty, we deflect by debating what land can be used for. Debates on land use are important, but as a net food exporter one of our responsibilities is to maintain our ability to produce sufficient food for the nation and continue to export the surplus. This does limit land use to food production but emphasizes it for our are but some of the hot debates in the POLICY CONFERENCE . We all agreed that whatever we do; a strong organization has no substitute.

7 It is the only vehicle for execution. Our discussions must be anchored in building a strong united organization. The CONFERENCE nudges us to contribute in weakening and ultimately destroy factions and put our skills and loyalty to the ANC. We are urging branches in general and individual members in particular to engage with the outcomes of the NATIONAL POLICY CONFERENCE . Discuss the documents and ensure that the contributions of the delegates will be of higher standard in ANC Secretary General Gwede MantasheNATIONAL POLICY CONFERENCE | REPORT3 OPENING ADDRESS2 Comrade Chairperson, Cde Baleka MbeteDeputy President, Cde Cyril Ramaphosa, NATIONAL Officials of the ANC,Members of the NATIONAL Executive Committee,Leadership of the Leagues of the ANC,Leadership of the SACP, COSATU and SANCO,Leadership of MKMVAS talwarts and Veterans of our Movement,Leadership of all structures of the Mass Democratic Movement, Traditional, Religious and Business leaders,Esteemed delegates from all ANC Structures, especially the branchesInternational guests.

8 Comrades and friends,Fellow South Africans, We convey warm greetings to all of you at 5th NATIONAL POLICY CONFERENCE of the African NATIONAL the next few days we shall scrutinise the health of the organisation in pursuit of organisational renewal, and also discuss our POLICY proposals for the country ahead of the NATIONAL CONFERENCE in December. Our discussions must be informed by unity, which is the rock upon which the ANC was founded. We were taught this by the founding leaders of the movement. In 1911 when he announced the founding CONFERENCE of the ANC, Pixley ka Isaka Seme made an appeal for unity, stating that the: The demon of racialism, the aberrations of the Xhosa-Fingo feud, the animosity that exists between the Zulus and the Tongaas, between the Basutos and every other Native must be buried and forgotten; it has shed among us sufficient blood!

9 We are one people. These divisions, these jealousies, are the cause of all our woes and of all our backwardness and ignorance to-day .Unity must be the thread that keeps this movement and our country together. Comrades and compatriots,The POLICY CONFERENCE takes place during a difficult period economically in our country. The economy has entered into a technical recession. At the time of the Budget in February, the economy was expected to grow at a low per cent in 2017. Given the current difficulties, even this low grow rate may now not be achieved. Our deliberations in this CONFERENCE on the economy will need to look at what needs to be done to reignite growth over the next five years.

10 This CONFERENCE also takes place against the background of good progress that has been made in the country in the past 23 years in consolidating democracy and also in expanding access to a better life. We have over the past two decades developed a functional democratic State, with an executive, parliament and judiciary that continue to execute their tasks, informed by the Constitution, serving the people of our country. The ANC affirms the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law and we promote respect for our courts as final arbiters in disputes in constitutional democracy is also characterised by freedom of the media which is enshrined in the Constitution.


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