The arrogance of power
Subtitle: South Africa's leadership meltdown
By: Xolela Mangcu
Publisher: Tafelberg
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780624070771; 9780624070788; 9780624070795
Subjects: Politics and government; African National Congress; Political leadership; Democracy; Political corruption; Post-apartheid era
Description: "Dr Xolela Mangcu has earned a reputation as one of most vibrant and engaging public voices in South Africa. This selection of his best columns, published locally and internationally over the  past two decades, is vivid, polemical and poignant. It records the initial excitement - and growing disillusionment - about the ANC in government, and the leadership meltdown at the heart of the South African crisis." -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-306) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A presidential chronology; title: The promise; title: The stumble; title: Coming apart at the seams; title: The road not taken; title: The Zuma surge; title: Triumphalism and its discontents; title: Realign or perish.