Chapter 7
Chapter 7. The ANC Leadership Crisis'. and the Age of Populism in Post-apartheid South Africa Ralph Mathekga Introduction Recent developments on the South African political landscape have raised ques- tions about the political leadership emerging in the country just over a decade after the end of apartheid. The ruling African National Congress (ANC) has largely defined the leadership fabric in the country, having grounded its political project on a moral appeal derived from the party's role both as a leader of both the liberation movement and the transformation process in South Africa since 1994. Recent events in South Africa, though, have left the ruling party on the defensive, where the party finds it necessary to reiterate and explain itself in terms of the leadership that it stands for.
1 party a vacuum that is filled by new cadres who become more conversant with party structures. This illustrates the so-called ‘two centres of power’ (Business Day, 2007), with the Mbeki administration on the one hand, and ANC cadres on the other.
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