JOHANNESBURG - in a continuous upheaval of the political order in Africa South along the governing African National Congress, on Wednesday appeared at risk of losing power in Johannesburg, the economic capital of the nation, after failing to form a coalition government.
part, which received the most votes in the city in August 3 local elections, but not enough to govern outright, was defeated in his efforts to build a coalition with the second largest opposition party, the fighters of economic freedom.
call of the ANC "Corrupt to the core," the leader of the opposition party, Julius Malema, said in a news conference that the idea of a partnership had become untenable after the ANC rejected certain conditions, including the resignation of President Jacob Zuma.
M .. Malema said the ANC would "not get a single vote" of his party.
instead Mr Malema said his party would support the main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, although it stopped from entering a formal coalition with it. the leader of the Democratic Alliance, Mmusi Maimane, said in a separate news conference on Wednesday that discussions were underway with Mr Malema to form a minority government in Johannesburg.
If ANC is out of power in Johannesburg, he will be out of government in the most important cities of South Africa. The Democratic Alliance, which has long controlled Cape Town, is now ready to form a minority government in Pretoria.
Before the elections, the A.N.C. Given the outright majorities in eight major cities, with the exception of Cape Town.
"the picture has changed dramatically for the ANC - Quickly into an election," said Ralph Mathekga, a political analyst It has become, he said. "a rural party."
The fighters of economic freedom, a radical left party that received 8 percent of the national vote, has become kingmakers Johannesburg and Pretoria after the vote on 3 August. The party was courted by the ANC, who needed his votes to form a coalition in Johannesburg, and the Democratic Alliance, which won the most votes in Pretoria but fell short of a clear majority.
But economic freedom Fighters, a party of three years whose members wore red berets and overalls, said Wednesday that he would rather stay in opposition and would not join a coalition. Mr Malema was once one of the strongest supporters of Zuma and formed his own party after being expelled from A.N.C.
M .. Malema has often expressed admiration for President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, and married the nationalization of mines and land expropriation without compensation of white South Africans.
Wednesday, Mr Malema said the A.NC. under Zuma had become a corrupt party which protects "white capital." He described the Democratic Alliance, a party formed by white South Africans, but now including many black leaders, as an organization of "white racists. " He said that the Democratic Alliance has also protected the "white capital", but it has not been corrupted.
"They are a better devil compared to the ANC," he said.
Dissatisfied scandals of President Zuma and endemic corruption within the ANC, many traditional supporters of the party voted for the opposition parties, or just stayed at home. Staggering losses, officials immediately said the party they were going to engage in "introspection".
But at the end of a four-day meeting of its leaders, Gwede Mantashe, secretary general of the party, said Sunday that officials had never considered asking the resignation of Mr Zuma. Other A.N.C. officials asked Zuma to be replaced before the end of his second and final term in 2019.
The party received 54 percent of voice nationally earlier this month, its lowest share in an election since he took power after the end of apartheid in 1994. the decline has been particularly strong in urban areas the country, where black voters many middle class have rejected emotional appeals of the party in its heroic past and instead made decisions based on good governance.
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