Reflections on the 2019 South African general elections: quo vadis?
OUTPUT TYPE: Monograph (Book)
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2020
TITLE EDITOR(S): J.Steyn Kotze, N.Bohler
KEYWORDS: AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC), DEMOCRACY, ELECTIONS
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11629
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/15679
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15679
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2020
TITLE EDITOR(S): J.Steyn Kotze, N.Bohler
KEYWORDS: AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC), DEMOCRACY, ELECTIONS
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11629
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/15679
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15679
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Abstract
The volume engages questions on land, election campaigns, voter turnout, voter apathy, and how opposition parties will be forced to co-exist in the context of declining electoral dominance the ANC once comfortably held. An important reflection on the lessons of the 2019 South African General Elections, the contributors ask: Quo Vadis South Africa? The 2019 General Elections marked a watershed in South Africa's political landscape. The ANC under the banner of a narrative of regeneration and getting back on the moral path dipped below the 60 % mark for the first time in South Africa's democratic history. This decline in electoral support for the party may be interpreted as a degeneration of the ANC through the loss of its moral stature, the erosion of its integrity and disillusionment with its performance as a governing party. Opposition political parties could not capitalise on this seeming disillusionment with the ruling ANC. Caught in their own factional battles and in the midst of corruption scandals, opposition parties were unable to successfully increase their share of the vote, and capture the undecided and disillusioned voter.-
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