SOUTH AFRICANS got a peek at the ANC’s five-year plan yesterday after two policy papers for its summer conference were leaked.
The Strategy and Tactics and Organisational Renewal discussion documents were first on a list of nine set to be officially released at a press conference at the liberation movement’s HQ in Johannesburg on Sunday.
But the documents were posted on the ANC party’s website — seemingly by accident — and rapidly went viral on social media yesterday.
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