The country now faces its biggest test since the end of apartheid
—the continent’s oldest liberation movement, the spearhead of resistance to apartheid and the governing party since 1994—is no longer a hegemonic force in South Africa’s politics. Though the results of elections held on May 29th will not be finalised for a day or two, early projections suggest that thehas taken a beating. The party is set to win about 42% of the national vote, according to psephologists from, a local outlet, a precipitous fall from the 57.
As a consequence the next fortnight will see the most important political negotiations in South Africa since the talks in the early 1990s that ended white rule. Mr Ramaphosa, who led those discussions on behalf of Mandela, again faces a defining task. Though the precise results, including those in concurrent provincial elections, will dictate all the possible routes, the path ahead has essentially two possible destinations: pragmatism or populism.
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