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THE ANC’s PRECIPITOUS electoral decline by a whopping 17 percentage points, from 57% to 40% in the general elections, has sent shockwaves throughout the political system in South Africa. It has reduced ANC’s seats in the National Assembly from 230 to 159 and ended its...
2024 has been the ultimate election year. By the end of this year, more voters than ever in recorded history will head to the polls in at least 64 countries. Over half of the world’s population will be involved. In just the last three months alone, pivotal elections...
Polarising ideological polemics, which shed more heat than light, should be avoided at all costs.
This article is co-published with Elitsha News. It is important to name and characterise things for what they exactly are. To mischaracterise phenomena can lead to bad strategy and tactics. Based on this approach, we argue that following the outcomes of the May 29...
*This article is jointly published by Amandla! and the Daily Maverick. "Ηow dare you,” Greta Thunberg lambasted world leaders in 2019, “you have stolen my dreams and my childhood”. By 2024, one could say that world leaders have stolen much more than her dreams...
This article was first published on the Africa is a Country website. We are publishing a variety of views on the results of the election in order to stimulate debate. Politics during apartheid had a certain straight-line simplicity. It was always pretty clear who the...
This article was first published in City Press. We are publishing a variety of views on the election results to stimulate debate. South Africa held its national and provincial elections on 29 May, amid the 30th anniversary of the end of apartheid. Contrary to...
This article was first published in ROAPE. We are publishing a variety of views on the results of the election in order to stimulate debate. For the first time in South Africa’s 30 years of democracy, the African National Congress (ANC) failed to obtain...
This article was first published on the Elitsha website. We are publishing a variety of views on the results of the election in order to stimulate debate. Populism defined the recent elections, inviting reactionary ideas into the mainstream. What does the outcome of...