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Watch – From MK to ActionSA to the Patriotic Alliance, operating like personal fiefdoms

In this video, Daily Maverick’s Rebecca Davis looks at how some of South Africa’s political parties deny their own members a vote, concentrating power in the hands of a few… And why it matters for the country’s democracy.
Watch – From MK to ActionSA to the Patriotic Alliance, operating like personal fiefdoms Illustrative image: Daily Maverick

 

 

Reporting by: Rebecca Davis
Produced by: Emilie Gambade
Edited by: Joel Seboa
Filmed by: Bernard Kotze & Joel Seboa
Sub-edited by: Kevin Flynn

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Comments

Robinson Crusoe Aug 23, 2025, 12:37 PM

Thank you Rebecca Davis. These characters are mere gangsters whose posters are identikits. It boggles the mind and there are crunch times ahead. The law courts and prisons await some of them. Once there was a leader by the name of Field Marshal JC Smuts. We totter downward.