It’s in Gauteng that democracy will require the EFF and FF+ to forget their ideological stances and keep the ruling party true to its promises.
. In a poll that many observers agreed would return a fractured ruling party to power, there are a lot of positives that came with the results.
The 2016 local government elections saw the EFF working together with the Democratic Alliance to keep the ruling ANC out of power in the Port Elizabeth, Tswhane and Johannesburg metros. Racially they represent two groups of voters that would vote together on a matter of common interest, with one group wanting to expropriate land without compensation and the other wanting to hang to the very same land, yet democracy has placed them together in a common pool. In their opposition to the ANC, they might have to vote together to keep the ruling party in line.
President Cyril Ramaphosa is well aware that the mandate given to the ruling party this time around is a provisional one. It is one that comes with an ominous warning: deliver or else.
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