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- Title: Election 2019
- Author : Collette Schulz-Herzenberg & Roger Southall
- Release Date : January 01, 2019
- Genre: Political Science,Books,Politics & Current Events,World Affairs,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 5564 KB
Description
The sixth general election since the arrival of democracy occurs ata critical moment in South Africa’s history. Since claiming a fifthelectoral victory under the leadership of President Jacob Zuma in2014, the ANC has become embroiled in one scandal and failure ofgovernance after another. It has allowed the state to be ‘captured’by outside interests, corruption has flourished, the economy hasplunged and the ruling party itself has become deeply dividedbetween competing factions. When Cyril Ramaphosa won therace to become party leader at the ANC’s national conference inDecember 2017, the stage was set for him to revive the economyand cleanse the state of corruption. Yet his narrow victory meant hisinternal party opponents remained strong, and the ANC remainedsharply divided between pro- and anti-Zuma factions. Ramaphosa’sroad to reform was strewn with numerous obstacles.The immediate question this book poses is will the ANC manageto manufacture a sixth electoral victory despite its disastrous recordin government since 2014? It finds the answer in the personalpopularity of Ramaphosa, the ANC’s capacity to forge political unitywhen confronted by the risk of losing power, established votingtrends amongst older voters, a sharp decline in participation amongthe youth which might otherwise have produced electoral shiftsand the failure of opposition parties to present themselves as viablealternatives.The subsequent question is what the consequences of a sixthsuccessive election victory for the ANC will be for South Africandemocracy. Will the ANC’s triumph provide a sufficiently strongmandate for Ramaphosa to turn South Africa around, or will he failto overcome Zuma’s allies within the party? Whether he succeeds orfails, will the ANC manage to hold itself together? Is the future andquality of South African democracy dictated by whether the ANCstays together or splits into rival parts?Election 2019 covers the context of the election, analyses changingvoter participation and attitudes, outlines party campaigns andexplores the role of gender and the media before evaluating theresult. At its heart is the issue of whether South African democracywill survive.
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