According to an expert, the flurry of small parties would have a marginal impact at the polls.
The increase in the number of small political parties in South Africa contesting the May 8 general elections may be a reflection of how divided South African society really is, according to analysts, but they expect the influx of newcomers will have only a marginal effect at the polls.
South Africans have seen the problematic nature of coalitions and how quickly a marriage of convenience can disintegrate. After the 2016 local government elections, coalitions proved to be volatile, and Nelson Mandela Bay and Tshwane are held up as examples. Mathekga observed that some of the new parties could win a seat and play an opposition role, but such parties often found it difficult to remain in parliament and grow.
He believed the flurry of small parties would have a marginal impact at the polls, save perhaps for Irvin Jim’s National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa’s Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party and Patricia de Lille’s Good party, a breakaway from the Democratic Alliance. Ndletyana said Jim’s party, a socialist movement, had some promise of making inroads, as it already had a Numsa constituency and big support in East London in the the Eastern Cape.
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