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Containing the Chiefs: The ANC and Traditional Leaders in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Roger Southall, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2003 - 
- Vol. 37, Iss: 1, pp 48-82
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In this paper, the authors analyze the relationship between the African National Congress (ANC) and the chefs of the province of Cap Oriental in Afrikaner, a province resulting from the absorption of deux anciens homelands.
Abstract
ResumeL’African National Congress (ANC) au pouvoir en Afrique du Sud depuis 1994 a cherche a articuler une vision confortable de “gouvernance cooperative” entre l’etat et les autorites traditionnelles (chefs). Mais un tel resultat est fondamentalement improbable, parce qu’en Afrique post-coloniale la chefferie a eu a survivre aux tentatives des gouvernements nationaux, soit de la remplacer ou de la soumettre a des controles stricts. Ce scenario, ne, semblet-il, des tentatives de l’ANC de centraliser le pouvoir est examine sous l’angle particulier de la relation entre l’ANC et les chefs du Cap Oriental, province resultant de l’absorption de deux anciens “homelands” africains. Apres avoir passe en revue l’heritage historique de la chefferie de la province et la consolidation du pouvoir des chefs par le biais du systeme de “homelands,” l’analyse suggere que le gouvernement provincial de l’ANC dans la region du Cap Oriental a consciemment cherche a marginaliser les chefs politiquement, en meme temps qu’il reu...

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Traditional leaders in post-1996 South Africa, with particular reference to the Eastern Cape

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the failure of the modernisation school to account for the resiliency of tradition in the modern African state, which is described by Sklar (1991) as amounting to a form of mixed government, combining the traditional with the modern to create a uniquely African form of governance.
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