This year’s election could mark a major shift in South Africa’s parliamentary politics. But re-building a Left capable of winning popular support presents a far bigger challenge, argue William Shoki and Niall Reddy.
For the first time since its unbanning in 1990, the African National Congress (ANC)’s vote share is expected to dip below 50 per cent in this year’s general election.
The ANC has been an all-dominant force in South African politics since the end of apartheid, shoring up its monopoly of the mass democratic movement through a formalized Tripartite Alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party.
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