Ladies and gentlemen, we have begun our descent back to grinding normality. Please turn off all your hopes of a major electoral upset and make sure your stoicism is in the upright position as we prepare the cabin and your nerves for five more years in ANC-Land ...

For some of our fellow passengers — those passionate supporters of opposition parties who have loudly and publicly insisted that the ANC is about to be dumped out of power — this announcement may cause some annoyance, a bit like hearing that your flight to Paris has been rerouted to Parys. ..

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