South Africa’s next government will be a coalition between the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and at least one opposition party, after the ANC’s collapse Wednesday’s election, as it failed to win a majority for the first time.
The preliminary results, which will be confirmed by Sunday, show the ANC with less than 42% of the vote. The leading opposition party, the centrist Democratic Alliance, has won nearly 23% of the vote. The radical Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) fell to fourth place with just under 10% of the vote, while the new, Zulu-dominated party of former President Jacob Zuma, Umkhonto we Sizwe (“Spear of the Nation,” or MK), is in third place at a solid 12%.
Or the ANC and the DA could set aside two-and-a-half decades of political opposition to each other and form a “moderate” coalition that would leave ethnic, nationalist, and communist parties consigned to the opposition.
The latter is the least likely combination, but might do the most to reassure investors and the international community that South Africa will be somewhat stable economically, despite the new instability of domestic politics.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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