By Karen E. Ferree
Post-apartheid South African elections have borne an unmistakable racial imprint: Africans vote for one set of events, whites help a special set of events, and with few exceptions, there's no crossover balloting among teams. those vote casting traits have solidified the dominance of the ruling African nationwide Congress (ANC) over South African politics and grew to become South African elections into "racial censuses." This booklet explores the political assets of those results. It argues that even though the beginnings of those styles lie in South Africa's previous, within the results apartheid had on citizens' ideals approximately race and future and the reputations events cast in this interval, the persistence of the census displays the ruling party's skill to take advantage of the powers of workplace to avoid the competition from evolving clear of its apartheid-era social gathering label. via protecting key competition events "white," the ANC has rendered them powerless, solidifying its carry on strength regardless of an more and more restive and disenchanted citizens.
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