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Cape Town – Two weeks of intensive training by the Chinese Communist Party face senior leaders of the ANC.
At least 35 senior ANC figures have already been on the programme, where they attend lectures about Chinese national planning and the Communist Party's political education system.
According to a report from the US internet news service GlobalPost, ciculated on Friday by the Centre for Chinese Studies at Stellenbosch University, a group of provincial-level party secretaries will make the trip by the end of this year, and dozens of other ANC cadres are expected to visit China for the same training.
The report quotes the ANC as wanting all members of its national executive committee to take part in Chinese Communist party lessons, "as part of the ongoing political education for the leadership of our movement," according to a report delivered at the party's policy conference last week.
The report says that as the ANC maps out a new economic system for South Africa with greater state control of key industries, the ruling party has been cultivating closer political links with China.
The ANC recently announced plans for greater state intervention in key sectors of the economy, saying that it will research proposals to nationalise mines and boost state intervention in financial institutions and currency rates.
It suggests that China's array of state-owned enterprises, in many cases run like private corporations though under government control, are also being looked at as a model for South Africa to adopt. Many of South Africa's state monopolies have floundered in recent years, racked by management problems and needing large government bailouts.
"China has long made it a priority to provide study programmes and host visits to China for government officials from across Africa, as part of a push to expand its reach and influence on the African continent," the GlobalPost says.
"There is a near-constant flow of political visits of various levels between China and African countries, with China normally footing the bill."
At least 35 senior ANC figures have already been on the programme, where they attend lectures about Chinese national planning and the Communist Party's political education system.
According to a report from the US internet news service GlobalPost, ciculated on Friday by the Centre for Chinese Studies at Stellenbosch University, a group of provincial-level party secretaries will make the trip by the end of this year, and dozens of other ANC cadres are expected to visit China for the same training.
The report quotes the ANC as wanting all members of its national executive committee to take part in Chinese Communist party lessons, "as part of the ongoing political education for the leadership of our movement," according to a report delivered at the party's policy conference last week.
The report says that as the ANC maps out a new economic system for South Africa with greater state control of key industries, the ruling party has been cultivating closer political links with China.
The ANC recently announced plans for greater state intervention in key sectors of the economy, saying that it will research proposals to nationalise mines and boost state intervention in financial institutions and currency rates.
It suggests that China's array of state-owned enterprises, in many cases run like private corporations though under government control, are also being looked at as a model for South Africa to adopt. Many of South Africa's state monopolies have floundered in recent years, racked by management problems and needing large government bailouts.
"China has long made it a priority to provide study programmes and host visits to China for government officials from across Africa, as part of a push to expand its reach and influence on the African continent," the GlobalPost says.
"There is a near-constant flow of political visits of various levels between China and African countries, with China normally footing the bill."
