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  • Anti-Zuma protestors in Cape Town complaining of the junk status that South African debt became valued at during the Zuma presidency. The term “se poes” is a slang insult in Cape Town (7 April 2017).

    The beginning of the end of the ANC

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on June 6, 2024 by Luke Sinwell (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy))  | (Posted Jun 08, 2024)

    For the first time in South Africa’s 30 years of democracy, the African National Congress (ANC) failed to obtain a majority of votes making a coalition with other parties imminent. Luke Sinwell considers the consequences, and discusses the emergence of a new party, MK, led by Jacob Zuma. Sinwell looks at what has happened to the left, and its repeated failure to make any serious inroads into South Africa’s political scene.