Last week’s election saw the ANC humbled, largely at the hands of its own political gene pool, and a second coming by Jacob Zuma
Jacob Zuma: his party uMkhonto weSizwe won 15 per cent of the vote which proved enough to ensure the ANC lost its overall majority. Photograph: Shiraaz Mohamed/AFP via Getty Images
Zuma’s newly founded party, uMkhonto weSizwe , named provocatively after the ANC’s revered military wing, Spear of the Nation, won 15 per cent of the vote but enough to ensure the ANC lost its overall majority.
“Liberation movements tend to cling on to power long after they have forsaken the idealism of their early days in office,” Alec Russell of the Financial Times writes. “Long ago it lost sight of the distinction between party and state. So corroded has it become in the 30 years since it took charge at the end of white rule that just about anything it touches seems to wither away.”
Both Zuma and Julius Malema, another former ANC stalwart who leads the far-left breakaway Economic Freedom Fighters , talk as much about recapturing their party, the ANC, as they do about leading the stateAnd MK has made that explicit by saying they will not work with the ANC while it is led by current president,Policy differences also make an ANC gene pool coalition unlikely.
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