Across the world, outsiders have been infiltrating the theatre of mainstream politics: Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine, Donald Trump in the US, Emmanuel Macron in France, Hakainde Hichilema in Zambia – and, in South Africa, Herman Mashaba, who went from being a business tycoon to Johannesburg' s mayor and founder of his own political party, ActionSA. In his trademark opinionated fashion, political scientist Prince Mashele traces Mashaba' s life from dire poverty to building the Black Like Me empire. He delivers a fascinating fly-on-the-wall account of Mashaba' s dramatic rise to the Jo' burg mayor' s office, managing the fragile coalition with the EFF and seeing off ANC dirty tricks. New information and insights abound in the tale of Mashaba' s bitter falling out with the DA. What emerges in this biography is a portrait of a pragmatic man with a passion for capitalism, a novice politician who defies ideological boxes. In Mashele' s hands, Mashaba is also the perfect foil for our troubling political machinery, revealing ever more sharply the fault lines of South Africa' s political system and the rot of the ANC in government.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of sbbreviations
- Author’s notes
- Preface
- Chapter 1: A window on southern Africa
- Chapter 2: Growing up
- Chapter 3: Dropout
- Chapter 4: The secret of success
- Chapter 5: The poor, not the elite
- Chapter 6: The ANC was a natural choice
- Chapter 7: The 1994 moment
- Chapter 8: A black project gone wrong
- Chapter 9: A party that once offended
- Chapter 10: Why must I read the constitution?
- Chapter 11: The birth of a pseudo-revolution
- Chapter 12: Use sleeping pills
- Chapter 13: Where history happens
- Chapter 14: From words to deeds
- Chapter 15: The lords of tenders
- Chapter 16: Public enemy number one
- Chapter 17: Turning the inner city into a construction site
- Chapter 18: A flame of passions in Alexandra
- Chapter 19: Shimmering stupidity
- Chapter 20: Foibles and nobility
- Chapter 21: Using a piano to conquer hearts
- Chapter 22: Juggling tricky and fast-falling balls
- Chapter 23: Happy to divorce
- Chapter 24: Going separate ways
- Chapter 25: A mission not to be betrayed
- Chapter 26: From dialogue to action
- Chapter 27: A vast soul
- Chapter 28: Love and respect
- Chapter 29: An honest dancer
- Chapter 30: ‘Music keeps me going’
- Chapter 31: Ideological box
- Acknowledgements
- Endnotes
- Picture section
- Index
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