Some in ANC resigned to opposition role as coalition talks race into final straight

Some in the ANC’s senior ranks have resigned themselves to a possible future on the opposition benches ahead of this week’s down-to-the-wire talks to form coalition governments in dozens of municipal councils.

Coalition talks have kicked into high gear in about 70 so-called hung municipalities, in which no party emerged with an outright majority. This follows local government elections earlier in November that marked the ANC’s worst electoral showing since 1994...