South African election: the fall of the ANC

For the first time since the end of apartheid, the African National Congress’ share of the vote in the upcoming election will fall below 50 per cent.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, pictured in June 2017, has served as president of the African National Congress since December that year. The socialist ANC is riddled with corruption and nepotism, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

May 20, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born,” wrote Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci in 1929. “Now is the time of monsters.”

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