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There’ll be no pivot – just a straight hard line heading downwards

ELECTIONS 2024

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

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