South Africa’s Governing ANC Loses Absolute
Majority for First Time in Thirty Years
Agence France Presse,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
6/2/2024 12:44:22 PM
South Africa’s ruling ANC faced a search for allies to form a new government Saturday after losing its three-decade-old absolute majority in a watershed election, as some rivals questioned the results.
With 99.85 percent of the votes from Wednesday’s election counted, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s African National Congress had only 40 percent, a catastrophic slump from the 57.5 it won in 2019.
This marks a historic turning point for South Africa as the party has enjoyed an absolute majority since 1994, when liberation hero Nelson Mandela led the nation out of white-minority rule and into democracy.
The ANC must now negotiate a coalition government or
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 6/2/2024 1:14:45 PM (No. 1729643)
One tribe loses control to another tribe. Still just inter-tribal warfare, the standard of behavior in Africa for thousands of years.
I don't expect significant changes.
Different boss....same results, mass corruption, violence against whites, and violence against the "wrong" tribes.
Foreigners don't grasp that when we see a bunch of black faces, as one unified whole, they see tribes as clearly as we see black from white, and they hate the 'wrong' tribe more viciously, and more deeply than any KKK white racist ever did - based on centuries of vicious inter-tribal warfare.
I had this explained to me by a South African who came to the USA, became a citizen and test pilot.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/2/2024 1:20:53 PM (No. 1729646)
What #1 said. Years ago I read a book on Africa, distributed to YPO conference attendees, that described this ingrained tribal aspect that continues to prevail after many thousands of years.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
planetgeo 6/2/2024 1:45:23 PM (No. 1729659)
You'd think that once they got rid of all the white devils they would have become one of the world's top superpower countries. You know, like Wakanda.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 6/2/2024 2:14:27 PM (No. 1729673)
"...since 1994, when liberation hero Nelson Mandela led the nation out of white-minority rule and into anarchy."
There, I fixed it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Luandir 6/2/2024 2:32:17 PM (No. 1729688)
Sounds like things aren't going too well under ANC rule.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JimBob 6/2/2024 3:33:29 PM (No. 1729744)
Sounds to me like
Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Schnapps 6/2/2024 4:20:12 PM (No. 1729772)
The ANC won 159 seats, They need 42 more to govern. The pro-business Democratic Alliance (DA), came second with 87 seats and the new Zulu MK party (backed by former president Jacob Zuma) got 58.
If the ANC forms a coalition with the broad-based multi-racial DA there is hope for South Africa. An ANC/ MK alliance will result in a lot of infighting (tribal differences) which will not help the country.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
danu 6/2/2024 4:27:45 PM (No. 1729773)
growing up i met so many lovely ppl in SA--lara logan types, supermotivated, hard-working, brainiacs.
afaik, these beautiful souls are mostly all dead.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
SkyKing1222 6/2/2024 4:38:03 PM (No. 1729777)
FTA
-“ South Africa as the party has enjoyed an absolute majority since 1994, when liberation hero Nelson Mandela led the nation out of white-minority rule and into democracy.”
Needs to be rewritten as:
“when liberation hero Nelson Mandela led the nation out of white-minority rule and into the Abyss. “
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
seamusm 6/2/2024 5:51:15 PM (No. 1729804)
And notably, we and the rest of the world enabled black on black racism/tribalism with our Western disinvestment schemes. SA went from apartheid to open warfare and murder. So much better now.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 6/3/2024 12:19:37 PM (No. 1730371)
Re #8, the ones that I know of have mostly emmigrated. One retired MD told me that his adult children had all emmigrated to Australia.
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