The internal processes of South Africa’s ruling ANC for electing the president is distorted by money, patronage, factionalism and vote-rigging.
The debate about white monopoly capital in post-apartheid South Africa is good for the country’s politics but it tends to come with bad sociology
Are those ANC members critical of Zuma willing to stand up and be counted? Will Pravin Gordhan provide one further great service to the nation?
The ANC president reiterated a statement he has made several times before – that the party will rule until Jesus comes.
The former president has made a remarkable intervention that condemns Parliament’s failure to act against Zuma. But he is eight years too late.
The idea of giving South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma amnesty in exchange for early exit is tempting but it will set a bad precedent.
​There are suggestions that the ANC lost the plot after the ascension of Jacob Zuma as the party’s president in 2007.
The education system continues to entrench elite advantage while the poor stay stuck on lower tiers.
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/ 23 February 2007
Government strategy has created a tiny black elite! Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) favours rampant crony capitalism! BEE is just corporate trickle down to the black middle class! Black empowerment is no more broad-based than Jacob Zuma’s bank balance! Such complaints form the backdrop to much discussion about BEE, the left blaming neo-liberal capitalism, the right condemning ANC misrule.
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/ 20 November 2006
Thabo Mbeki aspires to crafting a "developmental state" capable of directing the economy on to a path of innovation, sustainable growth, redistribution and poverty reduction. Adopted as a goal in part because the level of private investment has been disappointing, the aspiration is otherwise built on the ANC’s admiration for the East and South-East Asian economies, where rapid economic growth over the past three decades has been guided by activist states.