The ANC’s control of key positions in the unity government ensures its continued dominance in South Africa despite election setbacks.
Cyril Ramaphosa
An ANC unity government with the DA would win plaudits from the markets but also invite criticism that the party is selling out.
There are now effectively two ANCs: the ANC of current leader Cyril Ramaphosa, and the ANC of Jacob Zuma and Julius Malema.
The ANC failure to win a majority of National Assembly seats marks the start of a new, potentially unwieldy era of coalition politics in South Africa.
The embattled ANC is still on course to lose a parliamentary majority for the first time since the fall of apartheid.
Assertive South African leadership is vital to navigate geopolitics and represent Global South in the changing world order.
Here’s why claims by the United States that South Africa secretly exported arms to Russia don’t seem plausible.