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    SUSPENDED STATUS DEMOCRACY AND AUTHORITARIANISM

    Sep 27, 2020 4 minutes

    Author Dr Alexander Beresford, associate professor in African Politics at the University of Leeds, and others have borrowed an anthropology concept of productive liminality to explain our potentially indefinite suspended state of “authoritarianism and democracy”.

    This as the “Ramaphoria” moment in South Africa diminishes, corruption is rampant and shows no sign of slowing, and the liberation movement in power is becoming the spitting image of our former oppressors.

    The concept seeks to describe a situation in which a society is in a liminal status, wherein a transition to democracy and socioeconomic “revolution” remains forestalled; on the other hand, this liminality is instrumentalised to justify the one party’s (the ANC’s, in

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