Second chance for South Africa?

The recent election shows that the African National Congress' model is broken. The public now holds it to account, and in practice it will have to make coalitions with other parties to form government.

Cyril Ramaphosa is president of South Africa again, but he only got his job back because he managed to cobble together a coalition at the last moment, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

June 17, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—Cyril Ramaphosa is the president of South Africa again, but everything else is different. He got his job back in a vote late on June 14, but only because he managed to cobble together a coalition with a majority in Parliament at the last moment. It’s so new ...

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