Mcebisi ndletyana biography of christopher
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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.
It explains how the party, which had fought against the injustice of the brutal system of apartheid, became so absorbed by the sins of incumbency when it came to power.
The book is a distillation of analytical savvy, intellectual prowess, wit and the fine pen of an outstanding pundit.
The political scientist Anthony Butler and sociologist Roger Southall have bemoaned analyses of the ANC for lacking practical and intuitive knowledge of its institutional life, complexity and informal networks. Ndletyana’s book attempts to fill that void.
As emeritus professor of historical studies Chris Saunders has put it, the
ANC’s history is a large mosaic of many different parts.
But can these different parts be knitted together into a complete historical narrative?
Making h
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In issue Number#21 we report on participation by Ms Radhika Perrot on “Innovation in Energy” on CNBC Africa Power Talk with Chris Bishop; a book talk by MISTRA Head of Political Economy, Dr Mcebisi Ndletyana on Patronage Politics at theUniversity of the Western Cape as well as his participation at the 6th Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) Academic Forum in Brazil.We also report on participation by Joel Netshitenzhe, Dr Mcebisi Ndletyana and David Maimela in a learning exchange on youth unemployment hosted in partnership with MISTRA and Harambee. And we report on the participation by Ayender Makhuvela in a discussion on ‘Born-Frees in the May 2014 elections” on African Dialogues on Channel Africa. And we also report on a MISTRA skaftin on “The Evolution of Whiteness” by Prof Melissa Steyn from the Wits University Centre for Diversity Studies.
We also report on a range of media articles by MISTRA staff, including: MISTRA researcher, David Maimela on Nigeria’s new positioning as Africa’s largest economy; Dr Mceibisi Ndletyana on “Our History has reached turning point”, and “ANC’s Morality is on the line”; Oupa Makhalemele (researcher on MISTRA’s Evolution of the State research project), on “South Africa in