Breaking point
The seventh democratic general elections were, as predicted by many political analysts, watershed elections and, in fact, the breaking point for the country’s post-apartheid democratic dispensation.
The ANC, which was responsible for liberating the country from the shackles of apartheid and has governed the country since April 27, 1994, performed dismally at the polls, losing the majority of support it held in the national as well as three of the provincial legislatures – Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the Northern Cape.
The past
