ANC wants new Constitution

[BBSA]

The ANC is contemplating dramatic changes to the country’s Constitution, including scrapping the “sunset clauses” and changing the powers of the Reserve Bank and provinces.

City Press is in possession of draft policy documents that will be distributed to the party’s branches tomorrow ahead of its policy conference in June.

The documents are likely to shape the direction of government programmes if adopted at the ANC’s national conference in December.

In a section on strategy and tactics titled “The second transition”, the ANC says the Constitution of 1996 “may have been appropriate for a political transition, but it has proven inadequate and even inappropriate for a social and economic transformation phase”.

Other points to be discussed include:
» The fact that people think the party has lost its moral compass, represents a self-serving elite and is soft on corruption;
» The party is facing a “crisis of credibility” and people are beginning to doubt its capability to deliver social and economic change;
» The principle of ubuntu should be introduced to the school curriculum; and
» HIV/Aids should be made a notifiable disease.

The ANC also criticises government communicators for not effectively conveying service delivery successes and says terminology used by Planning Minister Trevor Manuel’s National Planning Commission is in conflict with that of the party. The commission speaks of a “capable state” while the ANC wants a “developmental state” that drives and controls economic growth.

On the ANC Youth League, the party says its relationship with the youth wing is important and should be “debated openly”.

The ANC proposes recruiting children for the ANC from the day they are born, establishing a state-owned publishing company to iron out problems with textbook distribution, introducing compulsory community service for all university graduates and pushing ahead with a media appeals tribunal.

The party will also discuss introducing a BEE code for the print media sector.

The party states that South Africa’s “first transition”, which it calls a “political transition”, was about finding a national consensus and a “framework based on the sunset clauses of the negotiations”. The sunset clauses relate primarily to land and property ownership. But these are proving “inadequate and even inappropriate for a social and economic transformation phase”, or the “second transition”, which South Africa is entering.

Constitutions are “living documents and reflect the stage of development of a given society”, the ANC says.

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[Mephisto_Helix]

Ostrich time ........ come on people, let us see how many have your head in the sand by your positive comments in this thread

 

[rorz0r]

oink oink oink

 

[Hemi300c]

Just to suit their needs in hiding their corruption and protecting themselves.

 

[TJ99]

Ostrich time ........ come on people, let us see how many have your head in the sand by your positive comments in this thread

Oh, the usual suspects will be along soon enough to tell us how this is all sensationalism, how "transformation" isn't just another word for "stealing", how 2 wrongs make a right, etc, etc. Zim 2.0, here we come.

 

[FNfal]

Sounds like the old south Africa ...but this one is on steroids :wtf:

 

[Nicodeamus]

well to be honest, I'm not really a fan of our current constitution, apart from the independent judiciary.

 

[Zyzzyva]

We need our own country separate from the craziness.

 

[burn]

The ironic thing is that the most socially transformative judgements coming out of the Constitutional Court, which are based on Constitutional rules and values, are all against the government. The government is the problem, not the Constitution.

 

[Ockie]

But they cant sommer go change the constitution! They need a outright majority and that as far as I know they don't have.

 

[BobsLawnService]

But they cant sommer go change the constitution! They need a outright majority and that as far as I know they don't have.

They're a few percent off. They'll make it happen.

 

[Zyzzyva]

But they cant sommer go change the constitution! They need a outright majority and that as far as I know they don't have.

They'll probably change that rule too.

 

[LazyLion]

But they cant sommer go change the constitution! They need a outright majority and that as far as I know they don't have.

a little bit of election fiddling will fix that.

 

[Pooky]

Well if they want to go the way the rest of Africa has, then by all means go for it. I'm sure your citizens will all be delighted when they're even more destitute.

 

[Ockie]

They're a few percent off. They'll make it happen.

They'll probably change that rule too.

a little bit of election fiddling will fix that.

Jeez.....I hate the ANC...I really do. I wish they would just bloody crash and burn! urg.

 

[w1z4rd]

But they cant sommer go change the constitution! They need a outright majority and that as far as I know they don't have.

You are right. This is posturing. I dont think it will happen. Im thinking this will boost DA votes as more moderates leave the ANC.

 

[Ancalagon]

This is frikken scary.

 

[Ady]

Just to suit their needs in hiding their corruption and protecting themselves.

+1

 

[grok]

Ubuntu in schools? That's your solution to the education problem? Children are there to learn not let's hold hands and sing kumbaya ffs.
And the ANC'll appear [-]soft[/-] a part of corruption until the day you fire your corrupt president. But then this is Africa innit?

The constitution is the only thing still standing between us and just another failed african nation.

 

[bekdik]

Does the ANC pay any real attention to the constitution?