PETER ATTARD MONTALTO: Coalitions make weird, exciting things happen
Stirrings of younger leaders below the surface is interesting as SA will immediately look to 2026
20 May 2024 - 05:00
Something is quietly boiling below the surface. The headline faces of the election are broadly the same — tired, generally quite old — and this is not just the ANC.
Dig a little deeper, particularly at provincial level, and fresh faces start to pop up. Their ability to cut through their elders always seems a challenge, particularly with the ANC (where the whole party, bar some exceptions that prove the rule, seems to move stepwise upwards through the party ranks by age only). ..
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