The Big Read: And the gold medal goes to Patricia de Lille

Last Wednesday, with their pens in thousands of polling stations across South Africa, the voters delivered a stunning klap to the ruling ANC. These local polls won outsize international attention, from affirming editorials in The New York Times to the front page of London's Financial Times.As the big three parties - the ANC, DA and EFF - go about the business of absorbing their election wins and defeats and building coalition governments, they should contemplate two historic statements from a d...