Sunday, May 22, 2011

ANC Slips A Bit

Some interesting news from South Africa's local elections: looks like the ANC is coming under an increasing amount of pressure from the opposition Democratic Alliance- now, it's not enough to make it a horse race (the ANC ran at about 66% to the DA's 15% nationally) but the Democratic Alliance is gaing- and more to the point, they're starting to slowly gain voters across the racial spectrum in South Africa.

I think if the ANC takes a hard look at these electoral results, I think they'll find that most people are pretty happy with the increasing quality of public services in South Africa, but beware cronyism and corruption, because it looks like the voters are starting to consider the Democratic Alliance as potentially a real alternative. While no doubt, South Africa's come along way since 1994 one thing they've yet to encounter is the ANC losing an election. That's a big test of any democracy- do you willing cede power to your opponents? I'm not saying that the ANC wouldn't do that- but a vital, strong opposition to challenge them and hold their feet to the fire AND potentially boot them from power can only be a good thing.

No comments:

Post a Comment