How can South Africa form a unity government from wildly different visions?
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa gestures next to members of the National Executive Committee (NEC), Deputy President Paul Mashatile (right) and Gwede Mantashe, as they meet to look at options to form a new South African government in Johannesburg on June 6, 2024.
Talks to forge South Africa's post-election unity government will need to bring together parties with goals as contradictory as seizing white-owned farms and mines, ditching Black empowerment policies and tearing up the constitution.
How well the African National Congress (ANC) harmonises these divergent and mutually hostile visions will determine the government's stability, its ability to make decisions and its policy priorities over the next five years.
