Mcebisi Ndletyana | Coalition quandary: Zuma's KZN conundrum
Former president Jacob Zuma after casting his vote at Nkandla on Wednesday. The MK leader will have to form a coaltion in KZN after failing to get a majority. The elections have just yielded unusual results. For the first time, the outcome is forcing coalition governments at both the national and provincial levels. We're in unfamiliar territory, but the behaviour of political parties is still the same.
Just as in past elections, parties have lodged all manner of objections. Some sound genuine, and others frivolous. Among the objectors, possibly the first, was the newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe Party . In its electoral debut, the MKP has emerged as the third-largest party nationally and the biggest in KwaZulu-Natal. South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future.
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