By Bettina von Lieres, L. Piper
Drawing on case reports from the worldwide South, this ebook explores the politics of mediated citizenship during which electorate are represented to the nation via 3rd social gathering intermediaries. The stories exhibit that mediation is either greatly practiced and multi-directional and that it has an enormous function to play in deepening democracy within the international South.
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Rangasami and Gird 2007) More recently, Mr N attempted to organise a meeting for the remaining 50 Niall Mellon Foundation houses to be delivered, still claiming to be the legitimate SANCO chair, but was stopped by a member of the new Laurence Piper and Claire Bénit-Gbaffou 35 SANCO executive who accused him of wanting to garner ‘support for himself’. Mr T, supporter of the new SANCO executive, points out that as a consequence of his opposition to the building of the school, he was personally targeted by the DA-led provincial government (as CDWs are employees of the province).
Here she makes the compelling case that the political repertoires of slogan shouting, disregard for the law and the use of political party mediators and traders associations have a long history that gives lie to the idea of a political rupture with the advent of democracy in India. While the relative balance between these practices may be changing down time as democratic citizenship and state power grow slowly, the political story is more one of continuity than change. Notably, this line of explanation echoes aspects of Mamdani’s (1996) argument that decolonisation in Africa brought about the deracialisation of the political system with the eradication of white rule, but not necessarily democratisation for those who continue to live under ‘indirect rule’ by traditional leaders in rural areas.
Notably, one of the reasons that SANCO is treated as a junior partner of the ANC is because of its dependence on the party-state for resources to function. Barely a few months after their electoral triumph, one of the new SANCO leaders confessed concern that ‘nothing was happening’ in Imizamo Yethu, in the sense that there were no new development projects underway, and specifically no project-related jobs for SANCO to be seen to be delivering. A recent interview confirmed this implosion with ANC failing to secure more than 200 paid-up members, and SANCO in an even worse condition.