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

Nzo, Thina

doi:10.5130/cjlg.v0i19.5490

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“…It is not insignificant that as a movement of mass struggle, the ANC has historically understood its role as being that of a ‘vanguard’ (Nzo 1991) – an organisation able to provide the required leadership and sustain mass political consciousness toward identified revolutionary ends. As a governing mass movement, the ANC has sought to retain this identity, making reference to itself directly as ‘a vanguard movement’ (ANC 2012: 12); ‘the vanguard of the NDR’ (meaning the National Democratic Revolution) (ANC 1997b); and ‘a vanguard movement for transformation’ (ANC 2012: 7).…”

Section: Participation In Mass Movement Discoursementioning

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The mass movement and public policy: discourses of participatory democracy in post-1994 South Africa

Brooks

2017

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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Despite policy commitments and legislated mechanisms, the system of participatory democracy in post-1994 South Africa is largely considered to have failed. In order to understand how underlying ideas can help to explain weaknesses in practice, this article examines how participatory democracy is understood by the ruling African National Congress (ANC). It shows that the multiple intellectual traditions shaping the participatory model have led to a set of policy initiatives that are not without internal tension. In part, the technocratic creep associated with improving public sector performance has stymied participatory efforts by placing efficiency and delivery over democracy and empowerment. Alongside this, however, the ANC's own conception of ‘democracy’ remains interwoven with its mass movement history – linking the role of popular participation to the extension of its own hegemony. The intent of policy to deepen democracy through structures of participatory governance is thus undermined by a teleological framing of participation as an intra-movement activity.

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Section: Participation In Mass Movement Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

The mass movement and public policy: discourses of participatory democracy in post-1994 South Africa

Brooks

2017

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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Limitations of the international approach to anti-corruption: a systematic review of South Africa’s compelling case of failing anti-corruption

Labik Amanquandor

2024

Crime Law Soc Change

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In the Global South, anti-corruption initiatives continue to fail despite varying commitments to the international anti-corruption agenda. Concurrently, as this study demonstrates, researchers investigating this paradox appear confined within orthodox explanations for failing anti-corruption efforts. Through a systematic review of 58 studies, this paper demonstrates that South Africa’s anti-corruption corpora from 1995 to 2022 fall to this critique. By employing socio-legal theoretical perspectives, the paper elucidates how and why the orthodoxy dominates the corpora and subsequently suggests a more nuanced understanding of the country’s ongoing failure to combat corruption. For example, the paper argues that the intricacies of South Africa’s corruption challenge the perspective that anti-corruption measures fail simply due to widespread rule-breaking. Through the prism of legal pluralism, this paper demonstrates that adherence to rules is indeed prevalent in South Africa, albeit often not aligned with formal state anti-corruption legislation and regulations. Finally, the paper posits innovative approaches to enhance and broaden our comprehension of why anti-corruption efforts fail, especially in the Global South.

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The African National Congress and South Africa’s Public Service: A Crisis of Dominance and Accountability

Thusi,

Mashamaite

2023

JISR-MSSE

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This article explores the impact of African National Congress-led government’s dominance on South Africa’s public service. On onehand, the African National Congress since the 1994 democratic elections had many achievements in advancing South Africa’s democracy and responding to the citizens’ needs through countless development and policy initiatives that were designed to cater to the basic needs of the citizens. On the other hand, it has become less responsive to citizen needs and this is evident as citizens have taken to the streets to protest for service provisions throughout the country. Citizens’ discontent can be seen in the rapid decline of the African National Congress’ political dominance and the formation of political coalitions. South African public service delivery has been marked by a lack of public accountability, corruption, cadre deployment, state capture, and procurement system manipulation as a result of the African National Congress’s dominance since the country’s first democratic elections. It is important to note that most South African citizens depend on the public sector and the African National Congress’s dominance in the public sector has damaged its ability to be responsive to citizens’ needs. This article relied on secondary sources, by reviewing current literature on the ramifications of having one political party dominating the country’s political space for decades.

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

Cited by 3 publications

References 34 publications

The mass movement and public policy: discourses of participatory democracy in post-1994 South Africa

The mass movement and public policy: discourses of participatory democracy in post-1994 South Africa

Limitations of the international approach to anti-corruption: a systematic review of South Africa’s compelling case of failing anti-corruption

The African National Congress and South Africa’s Public Service: A Crisis of Dominance and Accountability

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