Is the ANC Populist? An analysis of State of The Nation Addresses: 1994-2022
This paper analyses the prevalence of populist rhetoric within the South African ruling ANC party by evaluating the speeches of five presidents through an ideational theoretical framework. The grading criteria applied was developed by Hawkins et al. 2019, widely regarded as a pioneers in the field of populism studies. All the evaluated speeches in this paper were State Nation Addresses (SONAs) and