Despite the ANC's electoral loss in KwaZulu-Natal, President Cyril Ramaphosa has chosen to forge ahead with a coalition strategy to maintain the political centre.
For the longest time, President Cyril Ramaphosa was at pains to prevent the ANC splitting on his watch, frustrating critics and even comrades with the compromises he made to keep the party intact. It finally split along the KwaZulu-Natal fault line in May when ANC members loyal to Jacob Zuma worked unabashedly to help his uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party to win 45% of votes in the province, more than the ANC could muster at a national level.
It left Ramaphosa with the legacy of being the man who led Africa’s oldest and proudest liberation movement to the loss of its electoral majority. The president is no stranger to the agony of self-doubt and regret, and had come close to resigning six months earlier after the Ngcobo panel recommended that he face impeachment over the Phala Phala scandal. One may have expected days of similar rumination to follow the humiliation of 29 May. Instead, as the writing went up on the wall at the National Results Operations Centre, Ramaphosa found grace and resolve in defeat. He quipped to then chief justice Raymond Zondo that he badly wished his gaffe on the election year had not been one and that the results about to be announced were indeed those from 15 years ago. By then his inner circle had been briefed without equivocation that he intended pursuing a coalition that would see the political centre hol
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