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The Super Cadres - ANC Misrule in the Age of Deployment - cover

The Super Cadres - ANC Misrule in the Age of Deployment

Pieter Du Toit

Maison d'édition: Jonathan Ball

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Synopsis

After taking power, the ANC implemented its policy of cadre deployment. It sought command of all levers of power, from the Cabinet, through the civil service, down to municipal level.
Despite the party recently lasing its majority, cadre deployment will ensure that the ANC maintains its iron grip on power and patronage, and it remains fused with the state.
In The Super Cadres, bestselling author Pieter du Toit exposes how Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki laid the foundation for complete ANC control of the state, how Jacob Zuma's ANC exploited it and why Cyril Ramsphosa is complicit in the destruction that followed.
It is a searing critique of the ANC's desire for untrammelled power.
Disponible depuis: 02/09/2024.
Longueur d'impression: 300 pages.

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