The recent debate over the “casting vote” in next year’s election is important for our democracy. Tom Eaton summarises: “If Ramaphosa gets an underwhelming mandate, his enemies will have grounds to recall him and replace him with someone who can restart the looting. If the ANC drops below 50%, it will form a coalition government with the EFF.” A counter, proposed by Peter Bruce, is that DA voters vote ANC, to avoid the ANC needing an EFF coalition in the first place, and to prevent Cyril Ramaphosa being recalled by his party.
Maybe it’ll come to that, but maybe there’s work to do beforehand. I’ll unpack here only the essence of the concern: that the ANC will enter a coalition with the EFF. In a typical casting vote situation Julius Malema wants to be president and so wants to eat the ANC alive. Besides, his EFF backtracked on coalitions in Nelson Mandela Bay and Tshwane, just as Malema did on Jacob Zuma and Pravin Gordhan. If ANC leaders expect Malema to maintain a coalition a...
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