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    MAHMOOD MAMDANI ON EQUAL CITIZENSHIP AND 1994 TRANSITION

    Oct 25, 2020 4 minutes
    RAPULE TABANE rapule.tabane@citypress.co.za

    Internationally renowned Ugandan academic Professor Mahmood Mamdani has explored South Africa’s troubles with corruption and offered possible explanations for why politicians keep being returned to power, despite being implicated in graft.

    Currently a professor of anthropology, political science and African studies at Columbia University in New York in the US, Mamdani spoke to City Press after delivering the OR Tambo Foundation Memorial Lecture on Wednesday night. In 2008, he was voted the world’s ninth top public intellectual.

    Asked why the population complained about corruption, but – in every election – continued to vote for corrupt candidates, Mamdani said that, over time, people might come to accept corruption

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