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How will the ANC split affect South Africa?

A breakaway faction of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) has vowed to win next year's general election. The split in the party which has dominated South African politics since the end of apartheid was created when Thabo Mbeki, the then president of South Africa, was forced to resign. Will the creation of a new party benefit democracy in South Africa? Is the ANC, as Mbeki has claimed, riddled with nepotism, tribalism and corruption? What alternative policies should the new party offer and how much of a political impact will it make?

Published: 15 Dec 2008 14:29 GMT
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