LISTEN: '24 election ‘ended ANC dominance’
The country's general elections were one of the most significant in the post-apartheid history of South Africa, according to former IEC Vice Chairperson Terry Tselane.
Tselane has been reflecting since the country marked a year on Thursday when South Africans cast their votes.
" I have always maintained that it has always been an anomaly for South Africa, being a proportional representation country, or a country governed by the electoral system that is generally proportional, to have one dominant political party because the proportional representation system is premised on power sharing.
"The fact that in South Africa we have had one dominant political party is largely because of the specificity of the South African history, where you had the liberation movement fighting for freedom."
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The election outcome saw the ANC fall below 50 per cent of the national vote for the first time ever, resulting in the formation of a government of national unity.
Its coalition partners included the DA and IFP, resulting in the uMkhonto Wesizwe Party being the official opposition.
The results also saw the IEC come under attack, with the MKP making claims of vote rigging.
Tselane believes those claims did not come as a surprise, given the election results, in which no party received more than 50 per cent of the vote.
"It should always be expected when you no longer have one dominant political party that the political parties will approach courts in order to satisfy themselves with the outcome of the results of the elections."
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