ANC wants to change The Constitution

The ANC is contemplating dramatic changes to the country’s Constitution and changing the powers of the Reserve Bank and provinces.

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”.

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 principle of ubuntu should be introduced to the school curriculum; and
• HIV/Aids should be made a notifiable disease.
• 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 control textbook distribution,
• Introducing compulsory community service for all university graduates and
• Pushing ahead with a media appeals tribunal.
• Introducing a BEE code for the print media sector.
• Scrapping the indepencance of the reserve bank

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

Therefore, “there may well be elements of our Constitution that require review because they may be an impediment to social and economic transformation”.

City Press Johannesburg 2012-03-04