What’s in store for SA as the ANC implodes?: As the increasingly less relevant ANC vacates the middle ground and the centre-left, a void opens, which will urgently need to be filled
What happens when the ANC loses power and how will it respond? These two compelling questions have slowly formed amidst the swirling mists of South Africa’s post-1994 politics.
Opposition party politicians had been elected as mayors in Tshwane, Johannesburg and, for the first time, Ekurhuleni. , as ever, the voice of calm reason, indicated that the party was ready to spend time in opposition if that is what the voters had chosen and that the ANC would not put together coalition agreements merely for the sake of staying in power.
The one, the reasonable, measured, moderate middle of the ANC, unable to do anything to control the other: these are symptoms of an entirely dysfunctional, dislocated and deeply troubled organisation. Meanwhile, coalition deals were negotiated and struck across the land, with scant reference to Luthuli House. The ANC is a busted flush.
That there is still no real, clear serious challenger on the horizon tells us as much about the opposition as it does about the ANC. The fragmented electoral outcome from the local government election shows that the electorate is not terribly convinced by the alternatives on offer, with the majority of eligible voters turning their backs on electoral democracy.
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