Enemy of the people: How Jacob Zuma stole South Africa - Adrian Basson, Pieter du Toit

Condition : Good.
First Edition, Jonathan Ball, 2017, Large-format paperback - History - 338pp. ISBN 9781868428182. Light signs of foxing.
Enemy of the People is the first definitive account of Zumas catastrophic misrule, offering eyewitness descriptions and cogent analysis of how South Africa was brought to its knees and how a people fought back.
When Jacob Zuma took over the leadership of the ANC one muggy Polokwane evening in December 2007, he inherited a country where GDP was growing by more than 6% per annum, a party enjoying the support of two-thirds of the electorate, and a unified tripartite alliance. Today, South Africa is caught in the grip of a patronage network, the economy is floundering and the ANC is staring down the barrel of a defeat at the 2019 general elections.
How did we get here?
Zuma first brought to heel his party, Africas oldest and most revered liberation movement, subduing and isolating dissidents associated with his predecessor Thabo Mbeki. Then saw the emergence of the tenderpreneur and those attempting to capture the state, as well as a network of family, friends and business associates that has become so deeply embedded that it has, in effect, replaced many parts of government. Zuma opened up the state to industrial-scale levels of corruption, causing irreparable damage to state enterprises, institutions of democracy, and the ANC itself.