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.

They are due to be discussed at the ANC’s five-yearly policy conference in nearby Midrand from June 30 to July 5.

The leaked Organisational Renewal paper says that the state needs new means to deal with the “negative tendencies” of monopoly capital while “mobilising private capital” for job creation.

It also speaks of evolving the 105-year-old ANC from a “movement seeking the forceful overthrow of the apartheid regime to a political party that is part of a normalised political dispensation.”

Late last week party leaders told the recently formed group of some 100 ANC “veterans” critical of President Jacob Zuma’s leadership that their demand for a special consultative conference would be dovetailed into the summer gathering.

The group were divided after the party’s national executive denied them a separate conference with figures from outside the movement invited as delegates, saying it was unconstitutional.

The lengthy discussion documents address many longstanding concerns of ANC cadres and the party’s allies in the Cosatu union federation and the South African Communist Party.

These issues include corruption, the continuing dominance of monopoly capital and apartheid-era social relations 23 years after the landmark 1994 election — including an unemployment rate of 26.5 per cent and widespread poverty.

Meanwhile on Tuesday South Africa revoked its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The move came after a South African court ruled that the decision to pull out of the ICC without parliament’s approval was unconstitutional.

The ANC argues that the ICC disproportionately targets African countries.

However the opposition Democratic Alliance party which challenged the withdrawal refuted this, saying it didn’t want South Africa to be “lumped with other pariah states who have no respect for human rights.”