With the picture of electoral results beginning to emerge into crisper focus on Thursday night, little wonder that some of South Africa's smaller parties were demanding a re-run of elections. It is now all but certain that a number of the 2019 elections' most colourful and divisive characters are out for the count, politically speaking -- at least for this election cycle.
Daily Maverick's Stephen Grootes recently joked that if there was any justice in the universe, the South African Capitalist Party (ZACP) and the Socialist Revolutionary Workers' Party (SRWP) would end up having to sit next to each other in the parliamentary pews of the National Assembly.
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