South Africa’s hard-won democracy was the main victim of the chaos in parliament during President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address. In Recovering Democracy in South Africa , Raymond Suttner brings together the best of his recent thinking; he offers a fresh look at the wide range of contentious issues that currently preoccupy South Africans, from the threat to constitutionalism to problems with leadership and questions of ethics. The book is as much an in-depth engagement with our difficult present as it is a damning account of the politics of the Zuma era.