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An era of political destruction: The post-South Africa’s 2024 Elections Outcome

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  • Karabo Thobejane

    (North-West University)

  • Thabang Motswaledi

    (North-West University, South Africa)

Abstract

The study provides a critical political analysis of South Africa’s 2024 election outcomes. It argues that the black electorate chose a political landscape that will continue to violate, dehumanize, and in some contexts, kill them. The article purposefully demonstrates that the election outcomes signify despair, coloniality as well as its power and a very dark future for the historically colonized people, even though some voters may have voted for political parties based on meritocracy. This study uses a qualitative research method and a secondary data collection method. This means that this article engages academic journals, books, newspaper articles, and research reports. Moreover, it finds that coloniality is evident because black voters were not able to outrightly put a black collective in power that jigsawed and declared its policies within the template of the Freedom Charter and objectives of the ANC Youth League of 1944. For this reason, the aim of this article is to expose that black voters chose a political landscape where they would continue to face the end of their own existence. The study concluded that the government must revisit the CODESA agreements that led to the compromise of the Freedom Charter to come up with a new social order that will create a new humanity that is detached from all forces of white oppression. Key Words:Apartheid; Coloniality; Political landscape; National bourgeoisie; South Africa’s 2024 elections.

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  • Karabo Thobejane & Thabang Motswaledi, 2025. "An era of political destruction: The post-South Africa’s 2024 Elections Outcome," International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147-4478), Center for the Strategic Studies in Business and Finance, vol. 14(1), pages 215-221, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:rbs:ijbrss:v:14:y:2025:i:1:p:215-221
    DOI: 10.20525/ijrbs.v14i1.3857
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