Enthusiastic ANC supportets celebrate a recent election victory.
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The trouble is that the ANC’s branch structure, designed initially as a means of grassroots democracy at work, is in a mess.
African National Congress top six leaders. The governing party’s wishes are sometimes out of kilter with the dictates of statecraft.
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South Africa suffers capability deficiencies and institutional stasis due to poor political management.
South African president Jacob Zuma in the country’s parliament, the one formal structure that could remove him from office.
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Ironically, the only feasible way of removing President Zuma lies outside the prescribed formal structures of the constitutional processes – at the head office of the governing ANC.