Premium RW Johnson: Assessing ANC’s potential divorce with EFF in municipal coalitions
The long-time Oxford Don offers insights into a sobering up after local government dry-run for a ANC/EFF coalition in Parliament after the 2024 Elections.
By RW Johnson
The news that the ANC is considering terminating its coalition pact with the EFF, apart from showing that the course of true love never did run smooth, is ripe with irony. The pact was unveiled initially as a means of guaranteeing that the ANC maintained majority power in a number of municipalities where it was threatened by the loss of power. But, of course, these were also a dry run for the 2024 election. The ANC was clearly threatened by a loss of support and faced with the need for a coalition partner, had little difficulty in deciding that a deal with the EFF was far preferable to one with the DA. After all, the EFF largely shared its ideology and traditions and it was a black party.
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