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by Independent Online / Peter Fabricius

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And the government’s theoretical commitment to African regional integration is contradicted by the protectionism inherent in its Industrial Policy Action Plan – a subset of its development state concept.

Many people traced the country’s “reputational decline” to Polokwane, the 2007 ANC conference at which Jacob Zuma wrested party leadership from then president Thabo Mbeki, Spicer said in a keynote address to the SA Institute of International Affairs at its 80th birthday celebration.

But “the seeds of today’s parochialism and narrow racial nationalism can be traced back to the second Mbeki term, and particularly to the 2004 10-year review, which brought to the fore the ideology of the developmental state”, said Spicer, who is on the institute’s council.

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