Fighting Back: Rural Populism and Opposition Parties in the 2019 and 2024 South African General Elections

• In Event: Party Politics in Contemporary Africa

Brief Overview

This paper argues the resurgence of issues of land and rural security, as well as an increased attention to the role of sub-national communities signals a fundamental change in the attitudes of voters to the post-apartheid democratic dispensation.

Author

• Carolyn E Holmes, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville