Susan Booysen, is the Director of Research at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (Mistra), Visiting Professor at the Wits School of Governance and emeritus professor, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Booysen is a political analyst and media commentator, both in the print and electronic media. Booysen is the author of research-driven books on the African National Congress of South Africa and editor of several other books on South and Southern African politics. Her three major books on the ANC, to date, are The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power (2011) and Dominance and Decline: The ANC in the Time of Zuma (2015), and Precarious Power: Compliance and Discontent under Ramaphosa’s ANC; all three published by Wits University Press. Her two main edited books are FeesMustFall: Student Revolt, Decolonisation and Governance in South Africa (2016) and Local Elections in South Africa: People, parties, politics (2012). Her next edited volume will be Marriages of Inconvenience: Coalition Politics in South Africa (for Mapungubwe Institute, to be published mid-2021).