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South Africa

The ANC pays the price of holding on to power

The former ruling party’s municipal retreat may strengthen the brokers it needs to govern and sharpen the contradictions inside Ramaphosa’s national coalition

South Africa’s political order is fragmenting, but the people driving the realignment are not the young activists who have spent years protesting against inequality, unemployment and the failures of the democratic state. They are established political figures fighting over the remnants of the old order.

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