The Editor’s Desk: SA’s watershed election – will the ANC win it?

South Africa is headed into election season and the stakes are high. After months of testimony at various commissions of inquiry, the full scope of Zuma’s maladministration has been laid bare. There can be no illusions that the ten years of Zumanomics were anything other than a disaster for the people of South Africa. But going into the election, the ANC under Cyril Ramaphosa is telling votes that, while the Zuma years were a disaster, the ANC is turning over a new leaf and committing to fixing what’s broken. The big question is – will voters believe this or not? And if they don’t, what will they do? Will they turn to one of the opposition parties (and if so, which one)? Or will they send the ultimate signal of weariness and disillusionment and just stay home on election day? In this episode, Alec Hogg and Felicity Duncan unpack the upcoming elections and what the recent GDP numbers may mean for the country and the ANC. They also spend some time looking at the latest in the Elon Musk saga as the entrepreneur tangles once more with regulators and announces plans to take his company in a strange new direction.