Should South Africa further harden its position against Israel's "continued oppression" of the Palestinians? That is one of the questions facing the nearly 5,000 delegates who will attend the 55th African National Congress (ANC) elective conference in mid-December in Johannesburg. They will be guided in their deliberations by a policy paper released in May by the ANC's international relations subcommittee.

Every five years, this working group examines South Africa's place on the international stage