Editing African National Congress (section)

=== Cadre deployment ===
The ANC has adhered to a formal policy of [[cadre deployment]] since 1985.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1999 |title=Cadre Policy and Deployment Strategy |url=https://www.anc1912.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Umrabulo-Issue-No.6-1st-Quarter-1999.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.anc1912.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Umrabulo-Issue-No.6-1st-Quarter-1999.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |journal=Umrabulo |volume=6}}</ref> In the post-apartheid era, the policy includes but is not exhausted by selection of candidates for elections and government positions: it also entails that the central organisation "deploys" ANC members to various other strategic positions in the party, state, and economy.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Twala |first=Chitja |date=2014 |title=The African National Congress (ANC) and the Cadre Deployment Policy in the Postapartheid South Africa: A Product of Democratic Centralisation or a Recipe for a Constitutional Crisis? |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09718923.2014.11893352 |journal=Journal of Social Sciences |language=en |volume=41 |issue=2 |pages=159–165 |doi=10.1080/09718923.2014.11893352 |s2cid=73526447 |issn=0971-8923}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Swanepoel |first=Cornelis F. |date=2021-12-14 |title=The slippery slope to State capture: cadre deployment as an enabler of corruption and a contributor to blurred party-State lines |journal=Law, Democracy and Development |volume=25 |pages=1–23 |doi=10.17159/2077-4907/2021/ldd.v25.15|s2cid=245698431 |doi-access=free }}</ref>