Ebrahim Harvey | The 2024 elections are the ANC's to lose

If the ANC loses the 2024 election and has to form a coalition government, Ebrahim Harvey writes that he doubts that such a national coalition government will do much better at addressing and resolving the terrible crisis that we are faced with today on every conceivable front. 

There are many who will argue that given the biggest crisis in its ranks and in the country since our watershed 1994 elections, the governing African National Congress (ANC) could lose the 2024 national elections for the first time. More specifically, I reckon most people will argue that given the current worst socioeconomic crisis in post-apartheid history under ANC rule, which has taken a heavy toll on the lives of the people of this country, especially the black working-class majority, they deserve to lose. 

Even the president of the ANC and the country, Cyril Ramaphosa, who just last week argued that we must not badmouth South Africa, has numerous times conceded that poverty, joblessness and social inequalities are at the highest levels today. When he said that, I don’t think he seriously considered the devastating impact over the past decade those crises have had on the poor black majority in particular.