How SA’s ANC became a regular political party — with some help from JacobZuma
Politics tamfitronics Politics tamfitronics "The one certainty in SA politics is that the ANC’s standing as a liberation movement is dead."TheAfrican National Congress(ANC), the party that’s led South Africa since the first democratic elections in 1994, has long considered itself a “liberation movement” – representing all South Africans, as the “voice of the people”. But itsdismal performancein the 2024 elections (winning only 40% of the national vote) confirms that its transition from the status of a liberation movement to just a political party is now complete. There can no longer be a pretence that it alone represents “the people”. It is now simply the largest among a host of ordinary political parties doing what ordinary political parties do: scrambling for votes, political power and influence, says Professor of Sociology Roger Southall from the University of...
