The unspoken rule, whilst never acknowledged as an eternal truth, was the ANC would win the next South African election. While that has now been broken, the decisiveness and sudden upset - sudden being questionable for a political season of months, but seen from the cold and relatively peaceful north - has come harder than might have been expected. The reformer, Ramaphosa, so decisive in his rhetoric but pragmatic by his hand, has been bested - if not in raw numbers - by his disgraced predecessor, who has effectively wrestled the KwaZulu out from the reaches of the ANC, and much the Inkatha, in favour of a new political force combining ANC rhetoric and dreams with the verbal radicalism of an ostensibly tamed, and at any rate meek, EFF.
This has been welcome, in terms of ensuring , for no liberal democracy can endure with a single-party dominance. We know this from Hungary, although the same experts profusely counsel that a return to Republican governance in the United States, say, may mean the end of democracy.
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