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==== Developmental state ====
As its name suggests, the RDP emphasised state-led development – that is, a [[developmental state]] – which the ANC has typically been cautious, at least in its rhetoric, to distinguish from the neighbouring concept of a [[welfare state]].<ref name="ANC-2007">{{Cite web |date=2007-12-20 |title=52nd National Conference: Resolutions |url=https://www.anc1912.org.za/resolutions-2/ |access-date=2022-07-26 |website=African National Congress |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Bundy-2016" /><ref name="Seekings-2015" /> In the mid-2000s, during Mbeki's second term, the notion of a developmental state was revived in South African political discourse when the national economy worsened;<ref name="Seekings-2015" /> and the [[53rd National Conference of the African National Congress|2007 National Conference]] whole-heartedly endorsed developmentalism in its policy resolutions, calling for a state "at the centre of a mixed economy... which leads and guides that economy and which intervenes in the interest of the people as a whole".<ref name="ANC-2007" /> The proposed developmental state was also central to the ANC's campaign in the [[2009 South African general election|2009 elections]],<ref name="Seekings-2015" /> and it remains a central pillar of the policy of the current government, which seeks to build a "capable and developmental" state.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ramaphosa |first=Cyril |author-link=Cyril Ramaphosa |date=2022-02-14 |title=To grow our economy we need both a developmental state AND vibrant private sector |url=https://www.news24.com/news24/columnists/cyrilramaphosa/cyril-ramaphosa-to-grow-our-economy-we-need-both-a-developmental-state-and-vibrant-private-sector-20220214 |access-date=2022-07-26 |website=News24 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Khambule |first=Isaac |date=2021 |title=Capturing South Africa's developmental state: State-society relations and responses to state capture |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pad.1912 |journal=Public Administration and Development |language=en |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=169–179 |doi=10.1002/pad.1912 |s2cid=236273471 |issn=0271-2075}}</ref> In this regard, ANC politicians often cite China as an aspirational example.<ref name="Duarte-2018" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-08-23 |title=My Chinese dream: ANC brass put ideas to work |url=https://mg.co.za/article/2015-08-23-my-chinese-dream-anc-brass-put-ideas-to-work/ |access-date=2022-07-26 |website=The Mail & Guardian |language=en-ZA}}</ref> A discussion document ahead of the ANC's 2015 National General Council proposed that:

<blockquote>[[Chinese economic reform|China['s] economic development]] trajectory remains a leading example of the triumph of humanity over adversity. The exemplary role of the collective leadership of the [[Communist Party of China]] in this regard should be a guiding lodestar of our own struggle.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015 |title=International Relations: A Better Africa In A Better And Just World |url=http://www.anc.org.za/docs/umrabulo/2015/ngc_disc_docsy.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150827210636/http://www.anc.org.za/docs/umrabulo/2015/ngc_disc_docsy.pdf |archive-date=27 August 2015 |access-date=27 August 2015 |website=Umrabulo |page=161}}</ref> </blockquote>