The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- SECTION 1: ANC MOVEMENT-PARTY IN POWER -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction: ANC pathways to claiming, consolidating and regenerating political power -- The ANC and the regeneration of power -- Conceptualisation of political power in relation to the ANC -- Mapping the ANC's pathways to power -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Annexure to chapter 1 - Mapping the ANC's power trajectory, 1910-2011 -- CHAPTER 2 Aluta continua, from Polokwane to Mangaung -- The birth and the limits of the 'new ANC' -- A break with post-1990 'leadership determination' -- Polokwane as ANC 'war' -- Lessons from the president of plots and conspiracies -- ANC Youth League - king-makers, foot soldiers and agent provocateur -- The arms deal, Polokwane war and the haunted ANC -- Times of ambush and conquest - case study of the construction of an ANC elective conference victory -- Forward to Mangaung -- Conclusion -- Notes -- SECTION 2: ANC POWER AND THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE -- CHAPTER 3 The ANC and its pillars of people's power -- People's power in South Africa -- People pardoning the ANC, repeatedly -- The paradox of poverty, unemployment and ANC power -- ANC in election mode relating to the people -- The seeming paradox of democratic centralism and people's participation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- CHAPTER 4 Power through the ballot and the brick -- The chain of protest triggers -- Protest as 'bargaining' with the ANC for better governance -- Frequency, spread and periods of protest -- Five peak periods of protest and evolving complexity of protest -- Period one - 2004-05: Protest as local election bargaining tool -- Period two - 2007: National and provincial delivery grievances -- Period three - 2008: Xenophobia and the dark side of lapses in local authority -- Period four - 2009-10: 'Rights activism' protests.

Period five - 2011: ANC candidate-revolt and ANCYL protests -- Hierarchies of reasons for protest - configuration of unfolding waves -- Government's efforts at corrective action -- Conclusion -- Notes -- CHAPTER 5 Participation and power through cooperation, complicity, co-optation -- Regenerating power through variations on the theme of participation -- Status of people in public participation in South Africa -- Changing presidential orders and variations in public participation -- Inclusive mapping of public participation in South Africa -- Government-sanctioned public participation -- Unsolicited, spontaneous and protest participation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- SECTION 3: ANC IN PARTY POLITICS AND ELECTIONS -- CHAPTER 6 Power through elections - serial declines, but the centre holds -- Elections and the ANC's power project -- Fourth term and the confluence of electoral and public institution power -- The ANC and 'opposition politics' beyond party politics -- How elections work for the ANC -- ANC power in four sets of national-provincial elections -- Synthesis of ANC power through participation in legitimate elections -- Why South Africans vote ANC -- 'Two worlds', 'extended liberation movement dividend' and 'parallel democracy' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Annexure to chapter 6 - ANC performances in four sets of provincial elections, 1994-2009 -- CHAPTER 7 Floor-crossing and entrenchment of ANC electoral supremacy -- The tumultuous party political setting -- Alliance formation, floor-crossing and electoral systems -- Three rounds of power shifts through floor-crossing -- Round one: Floor-crossing moving the earth -- Round two: NNP remnants for sale, legal scramble to protect electoral bases -- Round three: A weak and discredited show -- The fates of floor-crossing parties -- Conclusion -- Notes.

CHAPTER 8 Subjugation and demise of the (New) National Party -- Antecedents to the NP as 'virtuous negotiator' -- Benchmarks in a drawn-out decade of decline and disintegration -- Three consecutive NP identities in ANC-controlled South Africa -- Identity one: The re-invented post-1994 NP -- Identity two: Schizophrenic about-turns in the DA and ANC flirtation -- Identity three: Subsumed into the ANC -- Post-mortem of NNP demographic and ideological positioning -- When did the NNP die? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Annexure to chapter 8 - Comparative NP and ANC power trajectories -- CHAPTER 9 Countered and cowered Congress of the People (Cope) -- Affirmation and negation of ANC power -- The struggle for predominance and identity -- Externalising internal opposition -- Ebb and flow of Cope's challenge to the ANC -- Cope's ideological and policy counter-positioning to the ANC -- Refuge in collaboration, alliances and reconciliation? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Annexure to chapter 9 - Development of Cope and counter actions by the ANC -- SECTION 4: ANC POWER AND STATE POWER -- CHAPTER 10 State institutions as site of struggle in ANC wars -- The ANC in command of the state -- State as site of intra-ANC struggles -- Periodisation of the ANC in relation to the institutions of state power -- Mandela period - early capture of state power (1994-99) -- Mbeki period I - ANC control and elaboration of state structures (mid-1990s-2004) -- Mbeki period II - interregnum of contest and paralysis (2005-08) -- Zuma period I - repopulating and taking control (2008-09) -- Zuma period II - new cycles of contest (2009 onwards) -- Cadreship, deployment and hegemony -- Select institutional domain wars -- Comrades in business and state-business -- Conclusion -- Notes -- CHAPTER 11 Between centralisation and centralism - the Presidency of South Africa.

Presidents negotiating the balance between state and party power -- 'Reinvention' of the Presidency - continuity and change in the Zuma presidency -- Presidential dominance, presidency centralisation and centres of power -- Clusters of influence on policy and governance -- Recasting the architecture of coordination, integration and planning -- Conclusion -- Notes -- CHAPTER 12 Policy, pursuit of the 'turn to the left' and the paradox of continuity -- Mapping the succession-policy contestation interfaces -- Unfolding debates and discourses on 'left turns' in ANC policy -- Policy results in the time of Zuma -- Intersecting 'dual centres of (state) power' and 'centre of (alliance) power' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- SECTION 5: CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 13 ANC at a critical conjuncture - movement, people, elections, governance -- Stocktaking of the four faces of ANC power -- Synthesis and implications for the regeneration of ANC power -- Notes -- Acronyms -- Index -- BackCover.

As government the ANC is the object of protest from its own supporters despite its impressive liberation credentials. This book focuses on facets of the ANC's political power - the organisation, the people, political parties and elections, and policy and government - and explores how the ANC has since 1994 continuously regenerated its power.

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