It’s apparently going to be pivotal. Aside from any anxiety South Africans have about next week’s election, that it will be “pivotal” to the country is the pre-election consensus of an array of foreign news organisations.
Well, as one says in Afrikaans, ja-nee. Yes and no.
Yes, the election is pivotal in that for the first time in three decades, the power of the ANC will face some checks. It almost certainly will