Cyril Ramaphosa

Cyril Ramaphosa
Author: Ray Hartley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2018-10-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1787380920

Download Cyril Ramaphosa Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

For a long time, Cyril Ramaphosa was the nearly-man of South African politics. He was Nelson Mandela's preferred successor, but the ANC opted for his rival, Thabo Mbeki, as the second post-apartheid president. Ramaphosa had led South Africa's huge mineworkers' union against the apartheid regime and was the key architect of the much-praised 1996 'rainbow' constitution. He later prospered in business on the back of the first big empowerment deals with white-owned enterprises, before returning to politics and the ANC in 2012. His eyes firmly on the prize, Ramaphosa played a long game as President Zuma became mired in scandal. In early 2018, Deputy President Ramaphosa persuaded the party to throw out Zuma and install him in his place. Announcing a 'new dawn', he has captivated the nation, but now faces his greatest challenge: fixing a broken economy, weeding out Zuma's corrupt minions and the legacy of 'state capture' by the Gupta brothers, and delivering on the promise of a better life for the poor. This captivating biography outlines Ramaphosa's extraordinary political and business career. It tells the story of one of the greatest political comebacks of modern times.

The Zimbabwean Crisis after Mugabe

The Zimbabwean Crisis after Mugabe
Author: Tendai Mangena
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2021-12-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000520994

Download The Zimbabwean Crisis after Mugabe Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This book examines the ways in which political discourses of crisis and ‘newness’ are (re)produced, circulated, naturalised, received and contested in Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe. Going beyond the ordinariness of conventional political, human and social science methods, the book offers new and engaging multi-disciplinary approaches that treat discourse and language as important sites to encounter the politics of contested representations of the Zimbabwean crisis in the wake of the 2017 coup. The book centres discourse on new approaches to contestations around the discursive framing of various aspects of the socio-economic and political crisis related to significant political changes in Zimbabwe post-2017. Contributors in this volume, most of whom experienced the complex transition first-hand, examine some of the ways in which language functions as a socio-cultural and political mechanism for creating imaginaries, circulating, defending and contesting conceptions, visions, perceptions and knowledges of the post-Mugabe turn in the Zimbabwean crisis and its management by the "New Dispensation". This book will be of interest to scholars of African studies, postcolonial studies, language/discourse studies, African politics and culture.

The Mandela Files

The Mandela Files
Author: Zapiro
Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781770130043

Download The Mandela Files Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Political cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro s personal tribute to the great man of our time

SAIRR News

SAIRR News
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1985
Genre: South Africa
ISBN:

Download SAIRR News Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Drum

Drum
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1290
Release: 2008
Genre: Africa
ISBN:

Download Drum Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Zapiro

Zapiro
Author: Zapiro
Publisher: Jacana Media
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2012
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1431404500

Download Zapiro Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Chronicling South Africa's 2012 politics and the state of the nation, this humorous compilation by one of the country's most well-known political satirists also delves into more personal topics. From President Zuma's five million rand court case against cartoonist Zapiro to the African National Congress's court action against Brett Murray, this book exposes the South African national conscience throughout 2012.

Cyril Ramaphosa

Cyril Ramaphosa
Author: Anthony Butler
Publisher: Jacana Media
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2011
Genre: South Africa
ISBN: 1431401846

Download Cyril Ramaphosa Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Digital Humour in the Covid-19 Pandemic

Digital Humour in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Author: Shepherd Mpofu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2021-10-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 303079279X

Download Digital Humour in the Covid-19 Pandemic Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Digital humour in the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives from the Global South offers a groundbreaking intervention on how digital media were used from below by ordinary citizens to negotiate the global pandemic humorously. This book considers the role played by digital media during the pandemic, and indeed in the socio-political life of the Global South, as indispensable and revolutionary to human communication. In many societies, humour not only signifies laughter and frivolity, but acts as an important echo that accompanies, critiques, questions, disrupts, agitates and comments on societal affairs and the human condition. This book analyses citizens’ use of social media and humour to mediate the pandemic in a diverse range of countries, including Brazil, India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The book will appeal to academics and students of media and communication studies, political studies, rhetoric, and to policy makers.