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The Jacob Zuma Era
At the domestic level, Jacob Zuma’s time as the president of South Africa has been described, most notably by his successor Cyril Ramaphosa, as “nine wasted years”. Whether this characterisation of Zuma’s reign is warranted or not is a subject beyond the scope of the present article. However, given the interconnectedness of domestic and foreign policy, such characterisation necessitates an inquiry into the performance of the Zuma administration in the foreign policy sphere. Given the impracticality of revisiting the Zuma administration’s foreign policy in its entirety in an article of this nature, Zimbabwe is used as a reference point. Additionally, assessing the Zuma administration’s foreign policy in its general or broad form may not produce specific findings. Therefore, in an effort to minimise vagueness, this article chose to restrain its focus to the assessment of the Zuma administration’s foreign policy towards neighbouring Zimbabwe. Methodologically, the article relied on document review and discourse analysis. The findings demonstrate that in its early interactions with Zimbabwe, the Zuma government adopted a more confrontational approach. However, as time went on, this approach was replaced by one reminiscent of the Thabo Mbeki administration’s foreign policy approach towards Zimbabwe.
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Challenges to Women's Leadership Role and Cross-Cultural Communication in Corporate Career Success in South Africa
Women leadership in many corporate organisations are few and this is largely because of male domination. It is a growing perception of unexploited women's leadership competence and talents in a cross-cultural corporate environment. Using a desktop research approach, this paper collected its data primarily through secondary sources and analyses them based on content, this research shows the rate of women's low representation in most nation's parliaments globally, which has significantly increased from 11.8% in the last two decades, precisely from 1998 to 17.8% in 2008 to 23.5 per cent in 2018. Using a cross-cultural approach, women are seen to be representatively smaller with meaningful impact, rather than the few individuals, it is not to state the falling short of women's representation in a leadership position in South Africa. Keywords: Women, Leadership, Representation, Politics, Cross-Cultural Communication
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Seizure of State Organs, Corruption and Unaccountability Promotion in South Africa: Case Study of Jacob Zuma Administration
This paper adopts the Afrocentric theory to explore the concept of State Capture, outline its events which proceeded the 2016 State Capture report, and analyse the socio-economic challenges it brought until recently when the Zondo Commission of Inquiry was established. The aim of this paper is to give a broader analysis of State Capture in South Africa and interlink it with corruption which together played a big role in Jacob Zuma (Former South African President) being unaccountable and not transparent at all times. This paper argues that Zuma and his entire administration were responsible for all the activities that led to State Capture and should find it within their means to take accountability and be transparent when they appear in the Zondo Commission. Preliminary findings revealed that indeed Zuma (individually) was never open and honest at the Zondo Commission in July 2019 but instead played hide and seek1 to avoid accounting for what transpired during his administration. A qualitative research approach was adopted to achieve the aim of this paper and recommendations are also tabled, particularly for all South Africans and the current African National Congress led government.
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How long will South Africa survive?
In 1977, RW Johnson's best-selling How Long Will South Africa Survive? provided a controversial and highly original analysis of the survival prospects of the apartheid regime. Now, after more than twenty years of ANC rule, he believes the situation has become so critical that the question must be posed again. He moves from an analysis of Jacob Zuma's rule to the increasingly dire state of the South African economy, concluding that the country is heading towards a likely International Monetary Fund bail-out which will in turn lead to a regime change of some kind.
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The pillars of the Jacob Zuma-led South Africa’s foreign policy : an Afrocentric review
The pillars upon which South Africa’s foreign policy rests have been a subject of significant scholarly enquiry, most of which have been framed from a Western paradigm. A particularly notable feature from the available literature on the pillars of South Africa’s foreign policy is the occasional tendency of the country to deviate from some of these pillars in favour of other interests. Given the above, revisiting the cornerstones of the Jacob Zuma administration’s foreign policy with an alternative Afrocentric lens is a worthy exercise. First, the exercise shall indicate whether the Zuma administration made any substantial changes to the objectives that guided the previous administrations’ foreign policy. Second, the exercise enables one to understand whether the Zuma administration was able to resist the ‘habit’ of jettisoning what is on paper in favour of other interests. Methodologically, this article adopts document study and discourse analysis in its broadest form.
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An Afrocentric analysis of the major incongruities in Jacob Zuma led ANC : implications for other African nations
In this article, the author uses interdisciplinary critical discourse in its broadest form to analyse the state of then Jacob Zuma led African National Congress (ANC) as a liberation movement cum ruling political party in South Africa. In particular, the author employs Afrocentricity as an alternative contextual lens to identify and tease out the perceived major contradictions that characterised the Zuma led ANC. The central question grappled with in this article is: to determine whether the political and ideological contradictions as displayed by the differing views of the prominent ANC led tripartite alliance represents the emergence or continuity of the real or imagined contradictions in the governing ANC? It is argued in this article that the major contradictions espoused by the leadership of the ANC can best be understood when located within historicity and the context of the elective national conference of the party held in December 2017. Even though this article’s historical sensibility forces it to briefly reflect on some of the key historical imperatives before the year 2009, its analysis is located within the Zuma’s ANC/ South African presidency.
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Change, continuity, challenges
A lot can happen in three months. Since the December 2017 editorial we have seen the ousting of South Africa’s president, Jacob Zuma, and the election of his successor, Cyril Ramaphosa, all of which took place against the backdrop of pre-dawn raids on the Guptas’ Saxonwold compound. Cape Town’s water crisis deepened and brought with it the threat of ‘Day Zero’ – the day that taps in the Mother City would literally run dry.
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