It’s high time for South African politics to grow up

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High and dry: Our hope for South African politics should be that we can broaden our political options beyond one party, the author says, instead of pinning unrealistic expectations on the ANC elective conference. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

As South Africa enters one of the most anticipated weeks of the political calendar, the week that the ANC conference is set to begin, it is important that we, as South African society generally, reflect on the state of our country’s politics far beyond the confines of ANC politics and the promise or not that the ANC’s elective conference holds. 

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Tessa Dooms

Tessa Dooms is a sociologist, development practitioner, activist and a director at the Rivonia Circle, a knowledge hub for policy and political alternatives

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