WILLIAM GUMEDE | Why black solidarity voting will not bring development

Unless voters stop voting on the apartheid past, but on the present, South Africa will continue to decline Zimbabwe-like, says William Gumede

28 May 2024 - 21:45

South Africa's seminal May 29 general election is a referendum on the governing ANC's performance in government. The 1994 vote was a referendum on South Africa’s apartheid past. ..

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