The Strange Death of the National Party

[Filuwaúrdjan]

This is just weird...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3544896.stm

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Cool.
They're just following the lead of the voters...my relatives from Durban switched from voting National to ANC in the last elections. They'd voted ANC on the provincial level before, but not the national.

Ah... the irony... the National Party merging in the *ANC*!
Who in 1948 would have thought that that was how the National Party would die...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The NNP is connected with the GOP via an organization called the International Democrat Union.  So will the ANC now pick up that affiliation?

This is kinda odd... I've heard about the lovey-dovey relationship between the NNP and the ANC but I'm not getting why the NNP could be so close to a party that has avowed communists as members.

The ANC is a member of the Socialist International

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Note: by any agreed upon definition, South Africa is not a democracy, and never has been- though the Apartheid regime comes closer to a textbook definition.

Thus, "politics" there is largely irrelevant. In 50 years, there won't be any whites left there, and most probably not all that many blacks the way AIDS is going.

You are sick

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Requirement of democracy: competitive elections.

Wrong.
Democracy=Rule by/of the People. Whatever you think of the ANC, you have to admit that they have been the choice of the overwhelming bulk of SA's population three times in a row.

Apartheid stopped the vast majority of the population from having any choice at all.