South Africa: Book Raises Poignant Questions About the Future of Nelson Mandela's Party

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My instinctive reaction on first laying my eyes on Mcebisi Ndletyana's new book, Anatomy of the ANC in Power: Insights from Port Elizabeth, 1990-2019, was to wonder if the African National Congress (ANC), which has governed South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994, was destined to atrophy.

The book is set to heighten the debate about the future of the party, whose dominance has been in decline since 2009. Ingenuously titled, it adds to the growing body of knowledge on liberation movements in power.

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