This article certainly highlights a number of the measures that the ANC is going to push through urgently in a desperate attempt to stave off disaster in the 2019 elections.  It seems that they will try to reduce the provinces in a manner that will benefit their election results.  They will ensure funding for free higher education (from somewhere that they can grab it) to try and gain support from skeptical youth who are likely swaying towards the EFF, and pouring funding into NHI from revoking tax rebates, when they have failed to address any of the fundamental issues of corruption, maladministration, and lack of professionalism in service provision that are plaguing public health care. They are entirely fixated on the election, and nothing in any of the policy documents from the conference indicates that they have any practical initiatives to address any of the fundamental issues affecting the country.  They are, for instance, doing nothing of substance to address basic education.