Magashule joins a growing list of disgruntled politicians who have opted to go it alone ahead of the elections.
An official who was expelled from South Africa’s governing party for unlawfully announcing a decision to remove President Cyril Ramaphosa from his post has started a new movement to contest elections next year, adding to an already crowded field of contenders. Ace Magashule, who was the secretary-general of the African National Congress before his expulsion earlier this year, announced the formation of his African Congress for Transformation in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
Magashule joins a growing list of disgruntled politicians who have opted to go it alone ahead of the elections, which are due to take place in about a year’s time and are set to be the most hotly contested since the ANC came to power in 1994. The proliferation of parties poses a challenge for the Electoral Commission of South Africa — the ballot papers could span three pages and an estimated 105 million of them will have to be printed.
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