In a video circulating on social media, former president Jacob Zuma's daughter Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla is shown being interviewed at the national elections results centre (ROC) after it emerged that the MK party had experienced unprecedented success at the polls.
In the video, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla is asked by a journalist what kind of governance the MK party would bring to South Africa.
She replies: "The same kind of government that we had under President Zuma. Those 9 amazing years: very similar".
In a different interview at the results centre, Zuma-Sambudla says that the MK party would endorse "doing what President Zuma did under his economy, which was great".
Zuma-Sambudla obviously has a particular political axe to grind, but is there any truth to what she's saying?
On the economy front, it is true that Jacob Zuma's administration, which began in 2009, had to deal with the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis.
Even so, however, in 2007, South Africa's annual economic growth was at 5.4%. During the Zuma years, from 2009 to 2017, that growth collapsed to around 1.5% annually. It is impossible to blame the global economic crisis for nine years of depressed economic activity.
During the same period, unemployment rose from 22.5% to 27.5%. Electricity prices rose by 350% and total public debt doubled.
When Zuma took power in 2009, the number of service delivery protests as measured by Municipal IQ...
