With all of the verbiage flowing and the spin doctors in full effect in South African politics today, it is hard to separate what is true from what is self serving, what is accurate from what is accusation. To wit, consider the following questions (with answers that I humbly submit for your consideration):
Is South Africa facing a potential civil war? (This seems more like hyperbolic fear-mongering than it does a legitimate assessment of the facts on the gorund.)
Is it possible that for all of the division in South African politics the ANC is poised to garner more than 70% of the vote in next year's elections? (With all due respect to the pollsters, this seems like an impossibility. If the ANC has actually consolidated its strength in recent years, and especially in recent months, it would be the missed South African story of the decade.)
Is the Congress of the People (COPE) likely to emerge as a savior in South African politics? (No. And to burden any party with such expectations would be silly. For COPE to burden itself with such pronouncements seems suicidal.)
Is the ANC actually “doing COPE's publicity work” for them? (Sometimes it seems as much.)
