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ungovernability

Definitions

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  • noun The condition of being ungovernable

Etymologies

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ungovernable +‎ -ability

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Examples

  • "independence", the 1981 rocket attack on the Sibasa police station, the arrest of prominent clergymen, the death of Venda leader Patrick Mphephu, and the so-called ungovernability of Venda in the early 1990s.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • "As the notion of 'ungovernability' took root and the regime lost control of the townships, cadres of the movement worked hard at creating alternative centres of power which further undermined the authority of the regime," Chikane says.

    ANC Today 2003

  • As the notion of 'ungovernability' took root and the regime lost control of the townships, cadres of the movement worked hard at creating alternative centres of power which further undermined the authority of the regime.

    Contents: 2003

  • Former UDF vice president Frank Chikane, writing in a special edition of Umrabulo, says that as the notion of 'ungovernability' took root and the regime lost control of the townships, "cadres of the movement worked hard at creating alternative centres of power which further undermined the authority of the regime".

    ANC Today 2003

  • Umrabulo, says that as the notion of 'ungovernability' took root and the regime lost control of the townships, "cadres of the movement worked hard at creating alternative centres of power which further undermined the authority of the regime".

    ANC Today 2003

  • As the notion of 'ungovernability' took root and the regime lost control of the townships, cadres of the movement worked hard at creating alternative centres of power which further undermined the authority of the regime.

    THE ORIGINS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE UNITED DEMOCRATIC FRONT (UDF) 2003

  • "As the notion of 'ungovernability' took root and the regime lost control of the townships, cadres of the movement worked hard at creating alternative centres of power which further undermined the authority of the regime," Chikane says.

    ANC Today 2003

  • Such actions were set to reinvigorate the spirit of militancy reminiscent of the era of 'ungovernability' declared by the ANC and the mass movement during the 1980's.

    BEYOND DREADLOCKS AND DEMAGOGY 2003

  • He blamed crime in the country on what he called "the culture of entitlement and lawlessness that was created by the 'armed struggle' and by efforts to create 'ungovernability' in the country".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • The delay of local government elections in KwaZulu-Natal was the direct result of the ANC's "ungovernability" campaign, he added.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

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