{"footnote":"  \u003Cp class=\u0022leftranged halfline\u0022\u003E    Roger Southall, who reviewed Johnson\u0026rsquo;s \u003Cem class=\u0022emphasisClass\u0022\u003EBrave New World\u003C\/em\u003E in \u003Ca href=\u0022\/the-paper\/v31\/n19\/roger-southall\/could-it-have-been-different\u0022\u003Ethe \u003Cem class=\u0022emphasisClass\u0022\u003ELRB\u003C\/em\u003E of 8    October 2009\u003C\/a\u003E, agrees that the ANC is now \u0026lsquo;a threat to democracy\u0026rsquo;, along with Mugabe\u0026rsquo;s Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe and Swapo in Namibia. In a revised edition of his \u003Cem class=\u0022emphasisClass\u0022\u003ELiberation Movements in Power\u003C\/em\u003E published last year, he finds that \u0026lsquo;the promise they once embodied is now dead.\u0026rsquo; The inexperienced ANC listened carefully to business leaders    and multinational CEOs. Too carefully, in Southall\u0026rsquo;s view: it wasn\u0026rsquo;t long before the corporates were exercising an undue influence on economic policy.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n","audio":[],"video":[]}