The liberal opposition cannot win an election on May 8th. So it is up to the president to clean up his own party’s mess
days of Nelson Mandela, one of the most effective slogans of the African National Congress , South Africa’s ruling party, has been “a better life for all”. The contrast with the old apartheid regime, which promised a good life only for whites, has never needed spelling out. As the party that helped liberate black South Africans from votelessness and segregation, thehas ruled uninterrupted since apartheid ended in 1994, always winning national elections by wide margins.
The case for dumping the ruling party is strong. It has been in power for 25 years—too long for any party, anywhere. Despite Mr Ramaphosa’s efforts, it is still stuffed with crooks, some of them too powerful for the president to sack. Though home to a broad range of ideologies, thehas recently seen a worrying resurgence of far-left populism among its cadres. For example, it vows to change the constitution to allow the expropriation of farmland without compensation.
The case for backing the liberal opposition, the Democratic Alliance , is also strong. It is far cleaner than the. Its charismatic young leader, Mmusi Maimane, believes in free markets. The parts of the country that it runs, including Cape Town and Johannesburg, are islands of efficiency in a sea of murk and incompetence.
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