Political Analyst Aubrey Matshiqi speaks to Polity's Brad Dubbelman on internal battles in the ANC.
http://www.polity.org.za/article/malema-and-anc-policy-leadership-battles-2011-09-13African National Congress secretary-general Gwede Mantashe reports back to the National General Council on the state of the party. http://us-cdn.creamermedia.co.za/assets/articles/attachments/29719_mantashe_report.pdf
From Polity.org.za
There is a final push by political parties contesting the upcoming elections in South Africa. In particular, the ruling party the ANC (African National Congress) held a debate via twitter today.
Interestingly, the political parties have begun to make use of Social Media and social networks to get their message across. The most prominent party making use of these techniques has been the DA (Democratic Alliance) whose campaign seems to have been inspired by President Obama's election campaign last year.
The DA have been managing a presence on social networks and several twitter accounts such as that of the mayor of Cape town and head of the DA, Helen Zille.
However, today the ANC announced on a newly created twitter account “ANC_DEBATE” that they would be hosting a live debate with questions fielded by Jessie Duarte, an anti apartheid activist and current spokesperson for the ANC.
After the announcement there was some debate on the usefulness of this. A South African twitter user @woganmay even created a special page on twittersa, to aggregate all the comments. Some reactions to the debate however were negative and the ANC took criticism.
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Special edition of Policy: Issues and Actors, Vol 20 no 10, June 2007