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Title:Comrades 'back on track'? The durability of the Tripartite Alliance in South Africa
Author:Beresford, Alexander
Year:2009
Periodical:African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society
Volume:108
Issue:432
Pages:391-412
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:trade unions
African National Congress (South Africa)
political attitudes
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/40388397
Abstract: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 argues 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 postapartheid democratic era, rather than any irredeemable ideological shortcoming of the ANC itself. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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