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Putting on a brave front, but behind the scenes ANC is reeling

parliamentary UNEMPLOYment

The scale of the electoral drubbing of the ANC in last week’s election is enormous. Its effects will reverberate across the political landscape of the country and the region for weeks and months to come.

While it has tried to put a brave face on it, there should be no doubt that behind the scenes the party is reeling. Almost six dozen ANC MPs – one in three of its MPs in the last Parliament – are now unemployed. So, too, at a

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