Will South Africa Repeat Zimbabwe’s Fatal Land Mistakes? (CapX)

Partly as a result of slow growth and partly because of growing corruption, the ANC has been losing electoral support. Its coalition partners, the Communist Party and the trade unions, are rebellious. Cyril Ramaphosa, who has recently replaced the disgraced Jacob Zuma as leader of the ANC, believes that he can shore up his party’s electoral prospects by adopting some of the policies of a Maoist group called the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). READ MORE

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