SOUTH AFRICA: PRESIDENT WRESTS CONTROL OF HIS OWN RULING PARTY AND THE JUDICIARY

SOUTH AFRICA: PRESIDENT WRESTS CONTROL OF HIS OWN RULING PARTY AND THE JUDICIARY

   Thu, 06 May 2021

South Africa’s resurgent president is methodically removing his political opponents and wresting control of the judiciary to consolidate his authority and eliminating resistance to his economic reform agenda. However, the prospect of political reform to prevent a repeat of the era of so-called “state capture” is weak and the government still lacks the political clout to implement its reform agenda.



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