Anatomy of South Africa : who holds the power?

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Title:

Anatomy of South Africa : who holds the power?

Author:

Calland, Richard.

ISBN:

9781868729036

Personal Author:

Calland, Richard.

Publication Information:

Cape Town : Zebra Press, 2006.

Physical Description:

xxii, 330 pages ; 24 cm

Contents:

Introduction 1. The presidency -- 2 .The Cabinet -- 3. The public service -- 4. Parliament -- 5. The ANC -- 6. The alliance -- 7. The opposition -- 8. Spin doctors -- 9 . Judges -- 10. Civil society -- Conclusion : Money and power -- Appendix A: The Cabinet -- Appendix B: The Constitutional Court.

Subject Term:

Democracy -- South Africa.

Power (Social sciences) -- South Africa.

Démocratie -- Afrique du Sud.

Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) -- Afrique du Sud.

Democracy. (OCoLC)fst00890077

Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741

Power (Social sciences) (OCoLC)fst01074219

Politisches System.

Geographic Term:

South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994-

Afrique du Sud -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1994-1999.

Afrique du Sud -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1999-

South Africa. (OCoLC)fst01204616

Südafrika

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Summary

Politics in South Africa is alive and vibrantly so, although the media often fail to reflect this. This book's main aim is to bring that political world to life. It presents a vivid, up-to-date picture of how power works in the new South Africa and who really makes the decisions around here. It is people who make politics, and this is a book about personalities as well as the institutions they belong to. Discussing topics such as the presidency, the cabinet and the directors-general, the opposition parties, the parliamentary committees and the ANC alliance partners, Calland takes the reader along the corridors of power, mixing vivid anecdote with solid research. The result is an accessible yet authoritative account of who runs South Africa, and how, today. The title is borrowed from Anthony Sampson's seminal work about who ran Britain, Anatomy of Britain, which was first published in the early 1960s. Like Sampson before him, Richard Calland has a fly-on-the-wall, insider's approach to the people who control the power that affects us all.