The African National Congress and the Violence of May, 2008
Steven Friedman
Centre for the Study of Democracy
Rhodes University/ University of Johannesburg
Summary
While government representatives deplored the May, 2008, violence, government policy and practice helped to create a climate conducive to violence. But what was the role of the ANC? There is a distinction between ruling party and government and the active members of the governing party may have actively combated violence before and after it occurred. This paper examined the ANC’s role and concludes that it did not, in any significant way, depart from government policy. The ANC response was no more a counterweight to action against immigrants than that of the government.
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