David Everatt is professor in the Wits School of Governance at the University of the Witwatersrand. He has chaired the South African Statistics Council and has spent more than thirty years studying governance reform, voting behavior, political violence, and youth marginalization in South Africa and across sub-Saharan Africa.
After thirty years of ANC dominance, the 2024 elections have ushered in multiparty politics in South Africa. Will the party’s centrist shift be enough to stop its descent, or is it destined to fracture further?
