The Battle for Future of South Africa Intensifies

Walter Russell Mead, American Int.
The damage that Zuma and the clique around him can do to South Africa can be irreversible if the institutions of South African democracy don't rise to the challenge. The last election campaign showed that the opposition parties, especially the Democratic Alliance, were growing into a much more serious force. The question is whether the opposition, now in power in a number of South Africa's big cities, can deliver progress and deepen its appeal to voters. Will the DA do a better job of filing potholes and improving schools than the ANC? That may now be the most important question for the...