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Keith Gottschalk

Keith Gottschalk is a Fulbright Scholar and former Head of Department of Political Studies at the University of the Western Cape.

Former Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Athol Trollip, from the DA, third from left, and his deputy Mongameli Bobani, from the UDM, extreme right, help clean up a street in 2017. (Werner Hills/Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images)
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Marriages of inconvenience: the fraught politics of coalitions in South Africa

A new book, Marriages of Inconvenience: The Politics of Coalitions in South Africa, takes a forward-looking view of the country politics but also a historical one

  • Keith Gottschalk
6 min read
Most South Africans agree that the country is in a mess and that the ANC must go if there is to be any chance of a second building of a new South Africa.
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The ANC’s Achilles heel: Its broken branch structure

The trouble is that the ANC’s branch structure, designed initially as a means of grassroots democracy at work, is in a mess.

  • Keith Gottschalk
6 min read