The SA Politics Thread Part 6

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South Africa has failed its Black majority. Nelson Mandela’s political heirs may pay the price​

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) swept to power in 1994 on a pledge to “build a better life for all,” winning almost 63% of the vote in the country’s first democratic election.

Fast-forward 30 years and Nelson Mandela’s erstwhile liberation movement, which triumphed over the racist apartheid government, risks losing its parliamentary majority for the first time, according to opinion polls and analysts.

When South Africans vote Wednesday, an unhappy combination of rampant corruption, soaring joblessness, crippling power cuts and feeble economic growth will likely be top of mind.
The economy has gone backward over the past decade, evidenced by a sharp fall in living standards. According to the World Bank, gross domestic product per capita has fallen from a peak in 2011, leaving the average South African 23% poorer.

A third of the labor force is unemployed, more than in war-torn Sudan, and the highest rate of any country tracked by the World Bank. Income inequality is also the world’s worst. There are 18.4 million people on welfare benefits, compared with just 7 million taxpayers, according to Oxford Economics, a consultancy.

“Three decades after the end of apartheid, the economy is defined by stagnation and exclusion, and current strategies are not achieving inclusion and empowerment in practice,” Harvard University concluded in a report published in November by its Growth Lab following two years of research.

“Tenderpreneurship” has devastated state-owned companies and local governments across the country, said Ricardo Hausmann, the director of Harvard’s Growth Lab, a hub for research on economic growth and development. “Poor implementation of affirmative action in the public sector” has contributed to “collapsing state capacity,” he told CNN. “The poster child of this is the electricity sector.”

For much of last year, South Africans were without power for at least some portion of the day. “Loadshedding” — as it’s known locally — hit a new record, with power cuts on 335 days, according to state-owned power utility Eskom. The years-long electricity crisis has abated in recent months, but it is not yet over.
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TheChamp said:
President Moonshot is hopping mad.

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'Cynical, calculated': DA to take Ramaphosa to court for 'abusing office' in national address | News24

The DA is filing an an application in the Electoral Court against President Cyril Ramaphosa, for violating the Electoral Code of Conduct and the EFF wants an investigating into the "misuse" of the state broadcaster, the SABC.
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You were the one asking everyone to take him to court this morning, now you're surprised when someone did...
 
ToxicBunny said:
So a majority then.. At least 50%+1 is your definition of winning.

Correct?
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Winning the election, there is only one way of doing that, we all knew how it works until today.

If you have somehow managed to confuse yourself just wait until Wednesday to see how winning an election works.
 
TheChamp said:
Winning the election, there is only one way of doing that, we all knew how it works until today.

If you have somehow managed to confuse yourself just wait until Wednesday to see how winning an election works.
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Put your fscking cock on the proverbial block.

By winning so you mean the biggest vote share or 50%+1?

Not complicated Champy.
 
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