South Africa: the ANC and the DA made a deal
Can it last?
I wrote about the results of the recent South African election in this post. The ANC, which has been in power for thirty years, had lost the majority and was forced into a coalition that had yet to be determined.
It turns out that the coalition formed is between the ANC and the more moderate DA (Democratic Alliance), the party which has been a major rival. The ANC leader and current president Ramphosa has been sworn in and employs some lofty rhetoric:
South Africa has begun a “new era”, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced as he was sworn in for a second full term in office.
He remains in office even though his party, the African National Congress (ANC), failed to secure a majority in parliament during last month’s election.
The ANC subsequently made a deal with its long-time rival Democratic Alliance (DA) and other parties to form a coalition government. …
“Through the ballots that they have cast, the people of South Africa have made plain their expectation that the leaders of our country should work together,” President Ramaphosa, 71, said solemnly.
“They have directed their representatives to put aside animosity and dissent, to abandon narrow interests, and to pursue together only that which benefits the nation.”
Wouldn’t it be nice if such a rarity came to pass?
Nothing that will happen will be a surprise.
The best SA can hope for is that things do not go downhill from here; but they most likely will.
The tribal animosities there are simply too great to overcome.
South Africa should have been partitioned into three independent countries – an Afrikaner one, a Black one, and a Zulu one. The ANC is controlled by Marxists.
having read the Covenant, we see the mess the Afrikaners created for themselves
a blood and soil party, the ANC is somewhat like the NAACP. the UmDZ was their militant arm, demography was not on the Boers side, the late Wilbur Smiths Rage, popularly depicted what Mandela was planning when he was swept up by the Police, now was Mandela justified thats a trickier question, Smith was a liberal in the parlance of the country, he showed his nuance in subsequent novels like Golden Lion, where he illustrated the foolish liberal, as well as the Afrikaner hardliners,