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Ethnodemocracy Part 5: Zulu Blues

How the ANC has drowned opposition with municipal demarcation and infiltration

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Robert Duigan
Jun 14, 2023
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KwaZulu Natal is known for a few basic things. It is hot, green and wet, covered in sugarcane, riddled with political violence, home to the Zulus, and to what used to be the biggest Indian diaspora on earth.

It is a highly divided province, but one in which the ANC’s control is unlikely to be shaken.

This follows on form the first four parts of the series…

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