Whether its the result of brimming with confidence, whistling past the graveyard, or playing politics as usual, the African National Congress is looking beyond the April elections to their next term as South Africa’s ruling party. The ANC surely does feel that it it going to win. Indeed, it probably will prevail in April. And so it makes a certain amount of sense to put on a front to make victory seem all but assured. Hyperconfidence is a luxury that the Democratic Alliance, Inkatha, or even the Congress of the People, the presumed strongest challenger to the ANC, cannot plausibly pull off.
