SOUTH AFRICA’S MULTIPARTY COALITION GOVERNMENT: SUCCESS OR REALIGNMENT?
Ralph Mathekga, political commentator, author
Saturday 25 January 1.00–3.00 pm COURSE FEES R220; Staff and students R110
The focus of this double lecture will be on the GNU and multi-party coalition government, and prospects for shifting South Africa’s political lines for the better. It will discuss conditions for the success of the coalitions and the challenges they face. The lecture will also interrogate whether South Africa will genuinely shift towards multiparty cogovernance and embrace the idea of power sharing as a long-term arrangement, or whether this is a temporary arrangement that is expected to be replaced by realignment. If the latter, what type of realignment is possible? What about the opposition? Will the MK and the EFF (being major opposition parties now) embrace constitutionalism as a path towards opposition politics, or will they opt for a disruptive approach?
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Ralph Mathekga is one of South Africa’s leading political analysts. He worked as a senior policy analyst at the National Treasury and is currently Senior Researcher at the Centre for Humanities and Research, University of Western Cape . He is often quoted by both local and international media houses and comments regularly on television and radio. His book, When Zuma Goes, was published by Tafelberg press in 2016. His latest book is Ramaphosa's Turn.