South Africa’s social contract: the Economic Freedom Fighters and the rise of a new constituent power?

Adams, Rachel M

doi:10.18820/24150479/aa50i3.5

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“…As such, within this paper, I will focus on the promise of the Constitution and briefly mention some of the criticisms and limitations of the Constitution. For detailed critiques of the Constitution, see, for example, Du Toit (2016), Adams (2018), Ramose (2007), and Madlingozi (2017).…”

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Precarity, ungrievability, and thinking beyond the law: a framework for understanding the position of LGB individuals in South Africa

Westman

2022

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Precarity, ungrievability, and thinking beyond the law: a framework for understanding the position of LGB individuals in South AfricaDrawing primarily on the work of Judith Butler and Drucilla Cornell, this paper aims to provide a theoretical framework for understanding the position of sexual minorities in South Africa. This will be done particularly in light of the violence, discrimination, and marginalisation that is experienced by, predominantly, black gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals from poorer South African communities. In so doing, the paper also explores how the marginalisation of and violence against LGB individuals play an important role in national identity development and the upholding of a hetero-patriarchal social order. The goal is thus to create an understanding of why, despite legal and constitutional rights, LGB individuals continue to be marginalised, violated, and discriminated against in their everyday lived experiences, and further, why, because of this socio-symbolic positioning, the law cannot necessarily guarantee these rights or protections.

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Precarity, ungrievability, and thinking beyond the law: a framework for understanding the position of LGB individuals in South Africa

Westman

2022

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The EFF as a ‘gateway party’? Briefing based on data from the 2021 South African local government elections

Bekker

2023

Review of African Political Economy

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SUMMARY This briefing offers three contributions concerning the voter profile of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), as witnessed at the 2021 elections in South Africa. The first is that the party’s support base is relatively well educated (compared to the ruling African National Congress). Second, well over 10% of party support comes from relatively high earners, as measured by income levels. Finally, EFF support appears notably ‘fluid’, as indicated by voters switching support to the EFF (mostly from the ANC) and away from the EFF (mostly towards smaller parties), ultimately suggesting an image of the EFF as a ‘gateway party’.

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South Africa's Vaccine Roll-Out and Its Potential Costs to Our Social Contract

Hobden¹,

Matisonn²

2022

Theoria

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Over the COVID-19 period, much attention has been paid to the governance relationship between citizens and the state. In this article, however, we focus on a feature that is less evident in the day-to-day living of the social contract: the relationship between citizens. Because this horizontal cohesion is critical to the social contract, we suggest that it should not be neglected, even amid a deepening crisis of state–citizen relations. Using the case of South Africa's vaccine roll-out as an illustration, we argue that certain kinds of state failures – failures in making complex fairness decisions, in treating citizens as equals when enacting these decisions, and in providing public justification for these decisions – risk dual damage to both citizen–state and citizen–citizen relations and so undermine an already fragile social contract.

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South Africa’s social contract: the Economic Freedom Fighters and the rise of a new constituent power?

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Precarity, ungrievability, and thinking beyond the law: a framework for understanding the position of LGB individuals in South Africa

Precarity, ungrievability, and thinking beyond the law: a framework for understanding the position of LGB individuals in South Africa

The EFF as a ‘gateway party’? Briefing based on data from the 2021 South African local government elections

South Africa's Vaccine Roll-Out and Its Potential Costs to Our Social Contract

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