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Who Will Become the Next President of South Africa?
By Stacy M. Brown
(NNPA Newswire)
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He proceeds to pub-
lish the novella on Dec.
19, and the first edition
sells out before Christ-
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the manuscript’s moving
message about catching
the spirit of the season
made a lasting impact
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T
he African Nation-
al Congress (ANC),
South
Africa’s
governing
social
democratic political par-
ty once led by the late
Nelson Mandela, faces
perhaps its most conten-
tious and controversial
election yet.
On Dec. 18, the par-
ty will vote for its next
president, a contest that
puts former health min-
ister Nkosazana Clarice
Dlamini-Zuma against
Deputy Prime Minister
Cyril Ramaphosa and
three others including
Lindiwe Sisulu, the na-
tion’s minister of De-
fense and Military Vet-
erans.
“South Africa is gov-
erned by the Tripartate
Alliance of the ANC,
South African Commu-
nist Party and Congress
of South African Trade
Unions and this ANC
alliance has fractured
into multiple competing
groups each headed by
a sort of warlord,” said
Eric Louw, an associate
professor at the Univer-
sity of Queensland in
Australia. “Each warlord
runs a patronage net-
work which dispenses
wealth and jobs within a
government system that
has become highly cor-
rupt.”
Louw has worked at
several South African
universities; his re-
search includes the role
of Pax Americana on
South African transfor-
mation.
The ANC is wrestling
with serious fractures in
the party and has been
for at least a decade, said
Nicholas Rush Smith, an
assistant professor of Po-
litical Science at the Col-
in Powell School for Civic
and Global Leadership at
The City College of New
York.
Smith’s main research
focuses particularly on
South Africa and he’s
working on a book ti-
tled, “Resisting Rights:
Vigilantism and the
Lindiwe Sisulu, the nation’s minister of Defense and Military Veterans,
is among the candidates for the ANC’s next president. In this photo,
Lindiwe Sisulu, participates in a ceremony, during a visit to Brazil.
Contradictions of Dem-
ocratic State Formation
in Post-Apartheid South
Africa.
“The ANC will choose
a party president in De-
cember who will likely
stand for South Africa’s
presidency in national
elections in 2019,” said
Smith. “The two leading
candidates for the ANC
presidency
represent
factions of the party that
are either support or op-
pose current President
Jacob Zuma.”
Nkosazana
Dlami-
ni-Zuma, the former
chairperson of the Af-
rican Union Commis-
sion and Zuma’s ex-wife,
is viewed as supportive
of Zuma, while Ramapho-
sa, the current Deputy
President, represents a
faction opposed to Zuma.
“Regardless of who
wins, the factionalism
within the ANC will like-
ly continue to deepen,
particularly if the party
continues to lose vote-
share at the 2019 election
to opposition parties,”
Smith said.
Meanwhile, Dr. Ben-
jamin F. Chavis Jr., the
president and CEO of the
NNPA, said South Africa
needs leaders who will
care about the people
they’ll lead.
“I endorse, support and
salute the effective lead-
ership of H.E. Lindiwe
Sisulu to be president
of South Africa,” Chavis
said.
Regardless of who be-
comes South Africa’s
next president, the can-
didate faces serious chal-
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lenges, Smith said.
“Unemployment is rife
and inequality is deepen-
ing. The next president
will face major questions
about how to alleviate
these problems; prob-
lems that have bedeviled
every
post-apartheid
president,
suggesting
that there are no easy an-
swers,” he said.
An
early
Septem-
ber poll showed Sisulu
emerging as the leading
female candidate to lead
the ANC and the country.
South Africa’s Times
Live has Sisulu with a
29-percentage point lead
over her closest rival‚
Dlamini-Zuma.
Dlamini-Zuma’s sup-
port dropped from 28
percent on July 12 to 23
percent by August 11
while Sisulu‚ whose sup-
port had already seen
significant gains‚ saw her
lead stretch from 45 per-
cent to 52 percent in the
same period.
“Comrade Lindiwe Si-
sulu believes now is the
time to elect a female
president. She is of the
view that the more fe-
male candidates there
are‚ the better,” Sisulu
spokesman Makhosini
Nkosi said. “As far as we
are concerned‚ we are
trying to get Lindiwe Si-
sulu elected president.
That is the mandate of
the branches that nomi-
nated her.”
Nkosi added that the
campaign was focused
solely on getting Sisulu
elected ANC president in
December.
A recent analysis re-
vealed that residents of
South Africa remain con-
cerned with the practice
of funneling state expen-
diture to suit the busi-
ness agenda of the elite.
However, Dlamini-Zu-
ma said in a recent ra-
dio interview that it
wouldn’t matter if she
focused on state capture
and that there was noth-
ing she could do about
it beyond recommenda-
tions already made.
“The issue of state cap-
ture, you know I’m not
in government, I can’t
do much about it myself,”
Dlamini-Zuma was quot-
ed as saying in the inter-
view published by The
Citizen in South Africa.
Earlier, she said, “once
state capture was dealt
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with, the country could
then focus on the most
important things, such
as poverty and unem-
ployment.”
Roger Southall, a pol-
itics and sociology pro-
fessor at Wits University
in South Africa, said he
thinks the battle for the
succession within the
ANC will ultimately be
a fight between Dlami-
ni-Zuma and Cyril Ra-
maphosa, the ex-unionist
turned businessman and
millionaire who has been
accused of fomenting
the Marikana massacre,
a 2012 incident that oc-
curred during a strike
at the Marikana mine in
South Africa.
The strike ended when
police opened fire, kill-
ing 34 miners.
“The odds now seem
against Dlamini-Zuma
while Ramaphosa seems
to be picking up not just
his own genuine sup-
port, but people bailing
out of the Zuma faction,”
Southall said. “Whatever
the result, it’s war within
the ANC and there could
be a split. The opposition
could pull off the need
for a coalition govern-
ment, as the ANC is so ob-
viously at war with itself.
Southall
continued:
“Many hope this will
happen as the ANC is not
merely now corrupt, but
devoid of ideas.”
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proposals for qualified Trade Partners to provide
preconstruction and design-assist services for Elec-
trical Work on the PACR project. Upon successful
preconstruction participation, the intent is to award
the Trade Partner a contract to furnish and install
the Electrical scope of work.
A pre-proposal meeting will be held at the Port of
Portland HQ, Anchor Conference Room, 7200 NE
Airport Way, Portland, OR 97218 on December 13,
2017 at 10:30am PST. Any Proposal received after
the specified date and time will not be considered.
A complete copy of the RFP can be obtained by
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Proposals must be delivered to JE Dunn Construc-
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Phone: 503-978-0800
JE Dunn Construction reserves the right to select
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proposers, or reject all responses. This is an Equal
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All proposals shall be submitted through email or de-
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taining electronic documents to the attention of Erin
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