The African National Congress's unprecedented victory in KwaZulu-Natal: spoils of a resurgent Zulu ethno-nationalism
SOURCE: Journal of African Elections
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2010
TITLE AUTHOR(S): M.Ndletyana, B.B.Maaba
KEYWORDS: AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC), KWAZULU-NATAL PROVINCE, ZULU NATIONALISM
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 6661
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/3955
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3955
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2010
TITLE AUTHOR(S): M.Ndletyana, B.B.Maaba
KEYWORDS: AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC), KWAZULU-NATAL PROVINCE, ZULU NATIONALISM
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 6661
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/3955
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3955
If you would like to obtain a copy of this Research Output, please contact Hanlie Baudin at researchoutputs@hsrc.ac.za.
Abstract
This paper probes the ANC's phenomenal performance in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), where the party not only registered a rare outright majority but also experienced a stunning rise in support, while dropping support in the other provinces. Yet the ANC-dominated provincial government in KZN did not perform dramatically differently from other ANC provincial governments. The ANC's rise in KZN can be put down to a resurgent Zulu ethno-nationalism that swelled around the party's presidential candidate, Jacob Zuma. Zuma projected himself as a victim of ethnic persecution, a view assisted by the reputation of his rival in the ANC, former president Thabo Mbeki, as a scheming and cunning politician who dealt harshly with his rivals. Zuma's candidature essentially renewed the saliency of Zulu ethnonationalism in South African politics just as it was waning.-
Related Research Outputs:
- Third time lucky: the ANC's victory in KwaZulu/Natal
- The African national congress and the policy of non-racialism: a study of the membership issue
- The impact of HIV/AIDS on land issues in Kwazulu-Natal province South Africa: case studies from Muden, Dondotha, Kwadumisa and Kwanyuswa
- Kwazulu-Natal programme for survivors of violence
- Raymond Mhlaba's personal memoirs: reminiscing from Rwanda and Uganda
- Bloodwise? Knowledge and attitudes pertaining to HIV and blood donation in Durban
- Contemporary tourism at Dwesa-Cwebe
- Infrastructure in educare centres in KwaZulu-Natal
- Empowerment through service delivery
- The airport, the road and the school: infrastructure delivery in KwaZulu-Natal
- Discretionary fund projects of the reconstruction and development programme
- The Mbeki presidency: Lusaka wins
- Audit of pension pay points in South Africa
- Fighting marginalisation: can COSATU rely on the alliance?
- Land reform in South Africa 1994-2000: some reflections from KwaZulu-Natal
- Holding a rural crisis: land reform and politics at Impendle State Land, KwaZulu-Natal
- Investment into eco-tourism projects: KwaZulu-Natal coastal belt: South Africa
- Local government, traditional authorities and land tenure reform in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Regionalism in the new South Africa
- Politicised ethnicity and regional political economy in KwaZulu-Natal