🔒 FT’s Alec Russell: How the ANC can save South Africa
The party may ultimately be doomed — but it could yet stave off disaster for the country.
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🔒 FT: ANC weighs coalition options after crushing SA election blow
Party which has governed since first post-apartheid election slumps to 40 per cent in the polls
🔒 FT’s David Pilling: ANC era over; SA politics has fragmented – possibly for good
Politics in the country has fragmented — possibly for good
SA votes in landmark election as ANC faces potential loss of majority
South Africans are voting in a pivotal election.
🔒 How world sees SA: Election could spell end of ANC dominance
Widespread discontent threatens the ANC’s long-standing dominance.
🔒 Mandela’s legacy fades as SA’s youth turn away from the ANC
Support for South Africa’s ruling African National Congress is being challenged.
🔒 FT: SA’s ‘born-free’ generation scorns democracy as ‘pyramid scheme’
Disillusionment among young voters is palpable.
🔒 FT’s Big Read: Alec Russell on SA’s ‘lost leader’ Cyril Ramaphosa
What’s at stake in Cyril Ramaphosa’s last election
🔒 FT: How South Africa’s ruling ANC hopes to cling to power
The ANC faces its toughest battle to retain power since 1994.
🔒 FT: The ANC treats Anglo American as both national champion and national piñata
South Africa’s ruling party berates big business one minute and urges it to invest the next