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Indications are that even an ANC victory at the polls is unlikely to reverse the party's decline in popular support.
A great deal of analysis on South Africa and the ruling ANC seems to be based on wishful thinking, not concrete reality.
South Africa needs a policy that drives growth and positions if for the 21st Century.
South Africa's idea of radical economic transformation is missing a critical element.
A tumultuous era has ended and there's a silver lining to the cloud that has been hanging over South Africa.
South Africa has successfully defended its constitutional democracy. But the harsh reality is that the country still faces development challenges.
A closer look at the resolution of South Africa's ruling party, the ANC, show that it won't undertake a radical economic transformation agenda as suggested by media reports.
Free university education and land redistribution without compensation have far-reaching implications for South Africa's economy, and requires exceptional leadership.
The conventional view is that insecurity of land tenure results from the lack of a registered title deed which records the property rights of occupants of land or housing.
South Africa's governing ANC has always seen economic growth as the driving force for change. This was wishful thinking as the damage done by apartheid will take far more to undo.
After South Africa's first democratic election in 1994, the previously oppressed and dispossessed black majority hoped for constitutional restitution of their land. This has largely failed.
One of the problems bedevilling South Africa's army is being compelled to be everything to everybody. Its strategic direction is compromised by generals who pander to the whims of politicians.
South Africa's governing ANC appears to have lost claim to being a leader of society. This is clear from the outcome of its policy conference.
The policy conference of South Africa's governing ANC will be remembered for a party in disarray, plagued with internal dissent.
Policy conferences of South Africa's governing ANC have been about economic policy matters. But more recently organisational renewal has also dominated, as the party loses support.
Has South Africa's constitutional project failed? Is the country's constitution an obstacle to meaningful redistribution and land reform?
The debate about white monopoly capital in post-apartheid South Africa is good for the country's politics but it tends to come with bad sociology.
The populism politics adopted by South Africa's ruling party, African National Congress, mask a strategy to deflect attention from the party's policy failures and to hide its many scandals.
The rising talk about 'white monopoly capital' as an obstacle to economic inclusion in South Africa is a red herring.
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Associate professor, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development, Stellenbosch University
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Lecturer of Finance, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Cape Town
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SARChI/Newton Research Professor in Political Theory, Wits and Cambridge, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor in Political Science, University of South Africa
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Professor of Economics, University of the Western Cape
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Senior Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor in the Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Economics and Public Finance, School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Researcher in Environmental Policy and Politics, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of the Witwatersrand
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Sabbatical Scholar, Columbia Law School; Dean of Law and Professor, University of Cape Town
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Professor, Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
