There is an enormous number of black South Africans who are alienated from the ANC but have been unable to find a political home.
The ANC consoles itself that its 57% is “only” five percentage points down. This, Cyril Ramaphosa and his fans sagely agree, suffices to be interpreted as the mandate the beleaguered president needed.
The MDC’s growth was ignited by Zim’s spectacular economic collapse, triggered by land expropriation without compensation. In SA, despite fragile economic circumstances and looming land expropriation, the DA has not, yet, benefited from a mass rejection of the governing party. The DA should know this. After all, it managed to retain its core liberal identity despite an influx of former National Party, white, mostly Afrikaner, voters. In 1994, its predecessor drew only 338 00 votes. In 1999, with the collapse of the Nats, that rocketed to over 1.5 million.
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