Can South Africa reshape its politics one more time?
How the country gets out of the current political crisis will define its future.
South Africa is in the midst of a self-inflicted political crisis. After President Jacob Zuma’s recent cabinet reshuffle and the country’s downgrade to ‘junk status’, there has been much talk – but little detail – from the ruling party about ‘radical socio-economic transformation’ and ‘white monopoly capital’.
Meanwhile, existing policies for tackling poverty, inequality and unemployment remain unimplemented, and the ANC engages in destructive, factional battles.
How will South Africa find its way out of the rabbit-hole of corruption and is it possible for the ANC to renew itself? What are the prospects for a new kind of politics after the ANC’s elective conference in December and when Zuma goes?
Chair: Judith February, Senior Research Consultant, ISS
Speakers:
Mpumelelo Mkhabele, former Sowetan editor, columnist and GovInn Fellow at the University of Pretoria
Pippa Green, journalist and author
Adriaan Basson, Editor, News24
Picture: ©Jacqueline Cochrane/ISS
