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THE 2024 national and provincial elections will go down in history as one of the most hotly contested in South Africa’s post-1994 political dispensation. For its part, the ANC pulled out all stops in its effort to retain power. Celebrities, sports personalities, artists, instant millionaires, and political has-beens who had benefited from the ANC emerged out of the woodwork putting shoulders to the wheel.
For this lot, defending the ANC is a must even at the risk of insulting one’s intelligence. Understandably so, any loss of power by the ANC is likely to threaten their material comfort.
Every election spawns a particular buzzword. Words such as hope, continuity, job creation, crime