← 1.4 Political developments and challenges since independence
Ethnic politics and winner-takes-all
History and Citizenship · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
Why mobilisation by community and a presidency that took everything made losing feel like exclusion.
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- 6 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
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Other lessons in this sub-strand
- Political developments since independence
- Political challenges and what can be done
- From independence to the republic
- Section 2A and the one-party state
- The return of multi-party politics
- 2002 transfer and the 2007-08 crisis
- The 2010 Constitution and devolution
- Ethnic politics and winner-takes-all
- Corruption, land and youth unemployment
- Promoting a peaceful political environment