Can DA and EFF forge a marriage following ANC's loss of support?

07 August 2016 - 02:01
By Carlos Amato

The ANC's loss of majority support in three big cities has reinvigorated South African democracy. But can the DA and the EFF forge an unlikely marriage? If they cannot, the ANC is poised to co-opt the kingmakers. There was no democratic euphoria on Diepsloot's Pear Street on Wednesday afternoon. The queue was two blocks long, the wind was as cold as poverty, and the faces of the voters expressed a thousand shades of gatvol.

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