Shadow State: The Politics of State Capture

Ivor Chipkin; Mark Swilling; Haroon Bhorat; Mzukisi Qobo; Sikhulekile Duma; Lumkile Mondi; Camaren Peter; Mbongiseni Buthelezi; Hannah Friedenstein; Nicky Prins

Shadow State

The Politics of State Capture

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Ivor Chipkin, University of the Witwatersrand, Mark Swilling, Stellenbosch University, Haroon Bhorat, University of Cape Town, Mzukisi Qobo, University of Johannesburg, Sikhulekile Duma, University of Stellenbosch, Lumkile Mondi, University of the Witwatersrand, Camaren Peter, Mbongiseni Buthelezi, University of Cape Town, Hannah Friedenstein, Nicky Prins

Publisher:: Wits University Press
Online publication date:: May 2019
Print publication year:: 2018
Online ISBN:: 9781776142132

Subjects:: Politics: General Interest, Politics and International Relations

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The 2017 publication of Betrayal of the Promise, the report that detailed the systematic nature of state capture, marked a key moment in South Africa's most recent struggle for democracy. In the face of growing evidence of corruption and of the weakening of state and democratic institutions, it provided a powerful analysis of events that helped galvanise resistance within the Tripartite Alliance and across civil society. Working often secretly, the authors consolidated large amounts of evidence from a variety of sources. They showed that the Jacob Zuma administration was not simply a criminal network but part of an audacious political project to break the hold of white business on the economy and to create a new class of black industrialists. State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) such as Eskom and Transnet were central to these plans. Shadow State is an updated version of the original, explosive report that changed South Africa's recent history. It introduces a whole new language to discuss state capture, showing how SOEs were ‘repurposed’, how political power was shifting away from constitutional bodies to ‘kitchen cabinets’, and how a ‘shadow state’ at odds with the country's constitutional framework was being built.

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The Politics of State Capture

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of figures and tables
pp vi-vi

Acronyms and abbreviations
pp vii-viii

Key terms
pp ix-xiv

Acknowledgements
pp xv-xvi

Foreword
pp xvii-xx

Prologue
pp xxi-xxvi

Introduction
pp 1-18

Chapter 1 - Structuring the Capture of the State
pp 19-28

Chapter 2 - The Politics of Betrayal
pp 29-58

Chapter 3 - Power, Authority and Audacity: How the Shadow State Was Built
pp 59-100

Chapter 4 - Repurposing Governance
pp 101-132

Chapter 5 - Conclusion
pp 133-138

Afterword
pp 139-144

Contributors
pp 145-148

Index
pp 149-159

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