South Africa’s Evolving Democracy: Beyond Elections May 2014

SOUTH AFRICA - Report 19 May 2014 by Iraj Abedian
SA national elections on May 7th 2014 marked the 20th anniversary of the country’s constitutional democracy. While the ANC maintained its control over the national government with a 62% majority, it had much to worry about when examining the details of voting patterns across the 9 provinces and the major metropolitan centers. Nationally, the ANC lost just over 3% of the votes compared with the previous elections, five years ago. The party also maintained control of 8 of the 9 provinces, albeit with a declining majority in every one of them. More revealing was the fact that the ANC’s majorit...

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