Bad blood between CR, Julius & Zuma should keep RET bloc out of power-share…

A lot of bad blood” between President Cyril Ramaphosa on the one hand and Economic Freedom Fighters  (EFF) Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambo as well as MK leader Jacob Zuma is likely to prevent a coalition between the Radical Economic Transformation (RET) parties and the ruling African National Congress (ANC). Instead, the ANC is more likely to team up with the opposition Democratic Alliance-led Multi-Party Charter (MPC) for a post-election coalition government. So says Senior Africa Analyst Ziyanda Stuurman of the Eurasia Group in this election preview with BizNews. “…in a lot of conversations I've had with political leaders as part of my day job, a thread that's very clearly coming through is that none of them want the EFF anyway close to real power or authority. And I think that that's a pretty powerful kind of motivating force, particularly then when you add the MK into that sort of mix.” She also says that MK is not just an ANC problem, but “an everybody’” problem - and that its advent on the political scene is changing the campaign strategies of a number of parties.