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There's nowhere to hide for ANC after losing decades long flavour

African National Congress (ANC) polling agents set up a tent decorated with party paraphernalia outside a polling station in Umlazi on May 29, 2024. [AFP]

Anyone with the slightest interest in Africa's current affairs would have predicted the messy situation that South Africa's Independence party finds itself in.

Writing on possible election results in April this year, this column predicted that Jacob Zuma's MK, a resurgent Democratic Alliance, and the assault on the youth vote by Julius Malema's EFF would deny the African National Congress the majority it needed to avoid coalitions.

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