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It’s been more than a week since the dust settled on the shock results of the ANC presidency in the just-ended national and provincial elections, and while the public discourse has become increasingly confused and acrimonious, President Jacob Zuma continues to play the “Art Of War”, though the actual meaning of the Latin phrase is not immediately clear.
Two days ago, Zuma fired the first salvo in a war that will determine the political future of South Africa: he announced the dissolution of parliament, something that is constitutionally permitted when a new government is appointed. It is done to determine which party is going to form a majority government and, therefore, effectively determines which party will be running the country. Zuma said the ANC will be in a position to form a majority government.
His announcement drew strong criticism from, among others, his political opponents as well as a number of South Africans on social media who deemed the move as unwise, provocative and downright anti-democratic. The call for the dissolution of parliament is a move that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, but the ANC has a firm hold on the public trust.
With the ANC already holding a majority in both houses of parliament, the biggest challenge for the party is to retain its status as the largest political party and, as such, form the next government.
The notion of a dissolution of parliament was raised only once during the ANC’s convention last year – and then rejected – as one of the reasons to challenge the outcome of the 2016 elections. The idea was quickly dismissed on the grounds that ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said that government would be run by a parliamentary majority, and that the ANC would not use undemocratic means to get to that majority.
The ANC argued that there was no need to dissolve parliament as it had won an overwhelming majority, and that government could be run by a parliamentary majority. The opposition, led by the Democratic Alliance (DA), argued that there was a need to form a new government, so that it could serve the interests
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