We are going to South Africa to learn more about the elections in which the African National Congress (CNA), the party with which Nelson Mandela came to power, lost its absolute parliamentary majority for the first time since the end of apartheid. He CNAled by President Cyril Ramaphosa, remains the majority party in the National Assembly, but obtained only 40% of the vote in last week’s elections, giving it access to 159 seats out of a total of 400. In second place The opposition Democratic Alliance party, with a neoliberal profile, remained, which obtained 87 seats.
But the biggest growth in electoral terms was for the new uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party led by former president Jacob Zuma, who had left office. CNA with accusations of corruption against him, which are being investigated. We spoke with South African activist Trevor Ngwane, director of the United Front coalition of community and union organizations, who points out that the electoral setback of the CNA It is the result of a “crisis of daily life” that the country is dealing with, in which there is high unemployment, corruption, collapse of infrastructure works, precariousness in social services and a deepening of inequality. “He CNA He did not fulfill his promises of national liberation. He did not meet the expectations of the masses, of the working class and of the poor people,” explains Ngwane.
We also spoke to journalist Louis Freedberg, who points out that the South African population is largely under 30 years of age and has little hope for the future. “They have lost faith in the government and really believe that nothing is going to get better,” Freedberg says. Now him CNA He must decide for the first time with whom he will build his coalition government.
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