ELECTION 2024 SOUTH AFRICA, countdown to coalition

326pp., paperback, Jacana, Johannesburg, 2024

ISBN: 9781431434534

South Africa’s general election of 2024 saw the African National Congress losing its majority at the national level for the first time since the arrival of democracy in 1994. To maintain its rule, President Cyril Ramaphosa led his party into a Government of National Unity (GNU) centered around a coalition with the opposition Democratic Alliance.

Election 2024, South Africa: Countdown to Coalition presents the first comprehensive analysis of this process. 

Contributions include:

"South Africa in Crisis: The background to 2024" by Roger Southall

"The People, the Parties and the Polls: Retreat from the ballot box" by Collette Schulz-Herzenberg

"The End of ANC Electoral Dominance: Inexorable decline, or just a poor campaign?" by Anthony Butler

"From Moonshot Pact to Government of National Unity: The Democratic Alliance of 2024" by Zwelethu Jolobe

"The uMkhonto we Siswe (MK) Party: The insurgents who speared the ANC" by Roger Southall and Ngqapheli Mchunu

"The Black Middle Class in the 2024 Elections: Signals from Johannesburg" by Mcebisi Ndletyana

"Coalitions: Learning from the past, gambling in the present, remaking the future" by Susan Booysen.

Roger Southall is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand.

Collette Schulz-Herzenberg is Associate Professor of Political Science, Stellenbosch University.