YACOOB ABBA OMAR: Lessons for the ANC from elections in Israel and Malaysia
A stark reminder for the governing party is that struggle credentials can only take it so far
Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister who was assassinated in 1995 by a Jewish supremacist, once said: “In every coalition there’s also some co-loathing.” Recent elections in Malaysia and Israel display that insight, providing indicators of possible trends for the next few SA general elections.
Like the ANC, the United Malays National Organisation (Umno) been recognised as the party that delivered independence. It was the governing party from the end of British rule in 1957 until it lost its majority in 2018. Over the past decade it has been steadily losing its allure, for several reasons but primarily its association with sleaze, graft and outright corruption...
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