Political Corruption: Before and After Apartheid

Hyslop, Jonathan

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“…The saving grace of this system, before it degenerated into an era of looting of the state by the white elites as democracy loomed, was that it was substantially 'developmental' in so far as it underpinned the partnership of state and capital that forged the MEC (Hyslop 2005;Fine and Rustomjee 1996). In contrast, the ANC's rule has become overwhelmingly predatory.…”

Section: The Party-state Private Accumulation and Political Unaccounmentioning

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The coming crisis of Zuma's ANC: the party state confronts fiscal crisis

Southall

2016

Review of African Political Economy

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Rising state expenditure threatens to outstrip the South African government's ability to pay. This danger is merely a symptom of and challenge to the predatory characteristics of the ‘party-state’ erected by the ruling African National Congress (ANC), notably as they are exhibited under the presidency of Jacob Zuma. The ANC government is increasingly looking to an oil and gas bonanza to avoid a ‘fiscal cliff’, while Zuma himself is driving a nuclear power future which threatens to bankrupt the economy. The latter strategy conforms to the party's greater disposition to corruption and patronage. Key parastatals have become headed by Zuma cronies; family and friends have been awarded government favour; and Zuma's personal interests intrude upon the governance of parastatals, the South African Revenue Service and the functioning of constitutionally protected agencies such as the office of the Public Protector. The Zuma government's repudiation of accountability highlights an official drift to secrecy. However, the increasing limitations of ANC economic policy combine with growing discontent in society to place the party's political hegemony at risk – but Zuma's presidency has compromised the ANC's capacity for internal reform.

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Section: The Party-state Private Accumulation and Political Unaccounmentioning

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The coming crisis of Zuma's ANC: the party state confronts fiscal crisis

Southall

2016

Review of African Political Economy

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“…Such failings reflect a contextual situation wherein 'policies of redress have to negotiate the non-racial ideology of the anti-apartheid struggle within a social context and set of political realities that cannot deny the legacy of the racialist practices of the apartheid state' (Hammett, 2008b, p. 653). Government policy decisions and rhetoric have rarely attempted to offer an alternative discourse, instead frequently resorting to racial language and categories-illustrated by the pronouncements of the President of the African National Congress Youth League, Julius Malema, and broader rhetorical practices that have deployed race and allegations of racism in political ways which have contributed to the reinforcement of racial identities and divides and a curtailing of the public sphere (Hyslop, 2005;McEwan and Bek, 2006;Southall, 2001).…”

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Requiring Respect: Searching for Non-Racialism in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Hammett¹

2012

Politikon

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“…Most analysts have heavily criticised the ANC party and its elected local representatives (in particular ward councillors and political office-bearers such as speakers, mayors and members of the municipal mayoral executive committee) for being embroiled in patronage and rent-seeking (see Staniland 2008;Ndletyana et al 2014;Beresford 2014;Dawson 2014;Butler 2015;Butler and Southall 2015;Ndletyana 2015), neo-patrimonialism (Lodge 1998 and and corruption (Hyslop 2005;Mashele and Qobo 2014;Johnson 2015) that has led to decline in service delivery and failure of ANC councillors in carrying out their representational mandate.…”

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Provincial–regional ANC politics in the Northern Cape: corruption or everyday informal practices?

Nzo

2017

CJLG

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Research over the last decade on local government in South Africa has highlighted that some municipal councils under the political leadership of the Africa National Congress (ANC) have shown weak political leadership, coupled with strong patronage systems, rent-seeking and corruption which have had an impact on the institutional functionality of municipalities in South Africa. Although patronage politics have been predominantly used to analyse the dynamics of post-apartheid local government ANC politics and councillor representation, this prevents us from understanding the representational focus of ANC councillors in decision-making processes. This paper offers an ethnographic insight into experiences of ANC councillors and the political complexities involved in council decision-making. Using ethnographic research, this paper will analyse how a political decision by the ANC provincial party, which was supported by the ANC regional party at local level – to erect a statue of Nelson Mandela in one of the municipalities in the Northern Cape – generated tensions amongst ANC councillors who strongly viewed their primary role as promoters of better ‘service delivery’ rather than approving the allocation of scarce municipal resources for erecting a statue. The paper reveals how the dominant presence of ANC sub-regional structures at local level contribute to the complex interaction of both ANC party political and municipal organisational rules and norms that influence and shape councillors’ choices in decision-making.

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Political Corruption: Before and After Apartheid

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Cited by 71 publications

References 2 publications

The coming crisis of Zuma's ANC: the party state confronts fiscal crisis

The coming crisis of Zuma's ANC: the party state confronts fiscal crisis

Requiring Respect: Searching for Non-Racialism in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Provincial–regional ANC politics in the Northern Cape: corruption or everyday informal practices?

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