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ID098507
Title ProperComrades back on track
Other Title Informationthe durability of the tripartite alliance in South Africa
LanguageENG
AuthorBeresford, Alexander
Publication2009.
Summary / Abstract (Note)The article examines the Tripartite Alliance in South Africa, drawing on in-depth interviews with members of the National Union of Mineworkers employed by Eskom, South Africa's electricity parastatal. The article challenges the widespread argument that the alliance is heading for an inevitable break-up by interrogating the resilience of workers' support for the ANC. It is argued that workers continue to identify a broad range of aspirations with the party and that the ANC thus remains the primary figurehead of political and social change in these workers' political imaginations. Exploring the attitudes of Eskom workers towards the ANC's presidential succession battle, it is shown that workers continue to hold the ANC as an organization to be sacrosanct: the failures of the ANC government were considered to result from the failure of individual leaders to meet their expectations of representation, mediation, and accountability within the post-apartheid democratic era, rather than any irredeemable ideological shortcoming of the ANC itself.
`In' analytical NoteAfrican Affairs Vol. 108, No. 432; Jul 2010: p391-412
Journal SourceAfrican Affairs Vol. 108, No. 432; Jul 2009: p391-412
Key WordsComrades ;  Tripartite Alliance ;  South Africa ;  Communist Party ;  ANC ;  Africa