Future Realities of Coalition Government
Reflections on Coalition Governments in the Metros: 2016-2021
- 136 pages
- English
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Future Realities of Coalition Government
Reflections on Coalition Governments in the Metros: 2016-2021
About this book
The 2016 local government elections in South Africa, held on 3 August 2016, marked a crucial turning point in the politics of the country. These fifth local government elections in democratic South Africa were characterised by a marked change in patterns of voting, and consequently, in the constitution of local government. An unprecedented loss of power in the country's metropolitan municipalities by the governing African National Congress (ANC), which subsequently resulted in the formation of several coalition governments with opposition parties with simple majority. This seismic shift in power has had implications for local government at both a theoretical and practical level. What lessons, if any, have been learned from the 2016 elections? And how, if at all, do they help us to prepare for the multiple scenarios that could potentially play themselves out? These questions and more are engaged in this book. Through interviews with various local and national government practitioners in the country, as well as the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- FOREWORD
- CONTENTS
- 1. CONTEXTUALISATION OF STATE POWER, ELECTIONS AND COALITION GOVERNMENT
- 2. COALITION GOVERNMENTS IN THE SADC REGION: A CASE STUDY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY IN ZIMBABWE
- 3. THE COALITION EXPERIENCE IN SOUTH AFRICAN LOCAL, DISTRICT AND METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITIES: 2016 – 2021
- 4. THE COALITION GOVERNMENT IN THE CITY OF EKURHULENI
- 5. INTERVIEW WITH MZILIKAZI WA AFRIKA
- 6. REFLECTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- Back cover