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After the Party: Corruption, the ANC and South Africa's Uncertain Future
After the Party is the explosive story of the power struggles dominating South African politics and a crucial analysis of the ANC's record in power. Andrew Feinstein, a former ANC member of parliament, recounts how Mandela's successor Thabo Mbeki repressed debate within the party, imposed his AIDS denialism on government, refused to criticize Mugabe's rule in Zimbabwe and
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Published
April 7th 2009
by Verso
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An indictment of ANC corruption after the promise of a new South Africa from a lefty insider MP. Even if you accept the necessity of setting SA on track in a framework of socialism and the affirmative action-like reconcilliation, the ANC has done a great job of pushing SA towards being another African basket-case. Like the American civil rights movement, what happens when the real leaders are killed, die or retire, and all that are left are corrupt substitutes?
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Gives a picture about the build up to the Arms Deal scandal that rocked South Africa soon after democracy. One for keeps.
Probably because I know so little about the ANC, I found this book insightful and thought provoking. I guess I'd need to come back and reread it some day to understand it a whole lot better. Some of the allegations are terrible... and the story is sad. I guess it's important to realise that even heroes have clay feet!
Wow - such a good book about the ANC arm's deal. Written by a former MP who was originally put into charge of looking into the deal. Shows how South Africa is no different than any other country: CORRUPT! Such a fascinating read!
This is a must-read for South Africans. It leaves some questions unanswered; there is soooo much about the RSA Arms Deal that was hidden, that I wonder if the truth will ever wholly come out in the open...?
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Andrew Feinstein was elected an ANC member of parliament in South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994. He resigned in 2001 in protest at the ANC government’s refusal to allow an unfettered investigation into an arms deal that was tainted by allegations of high-level corruption. His political memoir, After the Party: A personal and political journey inside the ANC, was published in 2007.
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