We recently had a general election here in South Africa, and I am extremely proud to be South African given the current developments. The ANC, which has been in power since the first democratic election in 1994, lost their absolute majority, with their percentage share of the vote decreasing from around 58% to 40%.
What makes me proud is the dignified manner in which they are handling this significant loss. They negotiated an agreement with the second-largest party to form a Government of National Unity and are currently working with various smaller political parties to share power based on a formula that considers the relative share of votes. The extremist left-wing parties are rejecting this and will form the opposition. While many things could still go wrong, it currently appears that this is how democracy is meant to function.
-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
