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LUCKY MATHEBULA | Credit where it’s due — and accountability too (opens the original)
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A familiar quarrel has returned to South African politics: during election campaigning, ANC national chair Gwede Mantashe reportedly pointed to reconstruction and development programme (RDP) houses, social grants, no-fee schooling, National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) support and public health care as ANC achievements. Critics object that taxpayers fund these programmes and the state delivers them — not a political party. They are right about who owns them, but wrong to suggest that a g
LUCKY MATHEBULA | Municipal elections will test whether constitutional government works where South Africans live (opens the original)
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When South Africans vote in the local government elections on November 4, they will do more than choose councillors. They will decide whether the country’s second democratic transition can work in the sphere where constitutional promises are experienced most directly: the municipality. For most residents, democracy is not first encountered in Parliament or the Union Buildings. It is encountered in whether water runs, refuse is collected, streets are lit, roads are maintained, and public money is
LUCKY MATHEBULA | When public office loses its temper, public representativeness is the casualty (opens the original)
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To remain silent while the public sphere degenerates into a flowing sewer of political sludge is to enter into collusion of a special type with the odour. Johannesburg is not an inconsequential municipality. It is arguably the commercial capital of the African continent, and a premium must therefore be placed on the calibre, judgment and temperament of those who lead it. The response of mayor Dada Morero to a resident cannot be spin-doctored away, sanitised by party communications or excused by
LUCKY MATHEBULA | Pussyfooting ANC’s mayoral choices will be a test of political renewal (opens the original)
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The much-anticipated announcement of the ANC’s mayoral candidates failed to meet the moment. Instead of presenting clear choices, the party unveiled shortlists and deferred final decisions. That hesitation matters. For all its electoral decline and accumulated failures of accountability, the ANC remains a benchmark against which South Africa measures political leadership. The standard it sets, whether elevated or diminished, continues to shape the wider political field. The movement that helped
LUCKY MATHEBULA | The ANC’s decline is no longer a warning. It is the political reality (opens the original)
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New polling does not create the crisis confronting the liberation movement; it reveals how far a long-running loss of trust, state capability and political leadership has advanced. The latest Social Research Foundation polling is severe enough to tempt sensationalism. The ANC stands at 34% nationally, the DA at 27%, the MK Party at 15% and the EFF at 7%. In Johannesburg the ANC has collapsed to 18%; in eThekwini it is below 20% and trails both the MK Party and the DA; only in Tshwane, where it r
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