COALITION POLITICS
PALESA MORUDU: Friction shifts ANC from political centre
Any force that plans to take over from the current ANC will never again take the people for granted
This week marks a year since coalition politics became a reality for SA. The ANC lost three metro councils — Johannesburg, Nelson Mandela Bay and Tshwane, the seat of government — to a coalition of opposition parties in local government elections. It was a stunning loss, one the governing party has yet to recover from. In little less than 20 months, South Africans will again go to the polls to elect a new government. This will be SA’s sixth national poll. For the first time since 1994, it is uncertain who will emerge as SA’s president come 2019 — this, in spite of whoever emerges as the leader of the ANC at the party’s national elective congress in December. There are currently six candidates in the ANC "primaries". The leader of the opposition DA, Mmusi Maimane, believes he has a shot at it. So does EFF leader Julius Malema. What is certain is that after a decade of President Jacob Zuma’s misrule, the 2019 national polls will become the moment when the ANC mythology is buried and s...
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