South Africa 2014

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YAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!

I've been checking that "Coming Soon" post for too long

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Agang leader Mamphela Ramphele will be the DA's presidential candidate and the party will be merging into the DA

http://mg.co.za/article/2014-01-28-agang-sa-da-merge-with-ramphele-as-presidential-candidate

Are the Agang voters (who I understand are a very small number of middle-class blacks, maybe 1-3% of the vote) likely to follow Ramphele into the DA? Or will they vote for someone else, or scatter?

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Could the WC or Gauteng see a result where the ANC and all-ANC-parties-sans-EF are both short of a majority, leaving Malema as a kingmaker?

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Great post, Hash -- a lot of the details, especially on the municipal level, I found especially impressive as things that would be hard to find anywhere else. But my favorite part was the first paragraph, in italics