Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII) with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) hosted a high level seminar on 6 July 2012 to debate how the ANC policy conference might shape the immediate and longer term interests for South Africa’s unemployed, working poor, working middle class, business elite and political elite respectively around the following three issues:

1)  Access to basic services and the notion of the ‘Developmental State’

2)  Economic transformation and the ANC’s version of a ‘mixed economy’

3)  Incomes: employment and access to key assets.

Full document: Final Policy Brief Towards Mangaung 2012