BN Edge | Corporate cash, coalition pressure: WSM on who calls the shots

Seven of eight metros hung, the ANC on under a third of the vote, and less than a fortnight to form governments. William Saunderson-Meyer told Alec Hogg that Cyril Ramaphosa had finally run out of road to kick the can down, and that his choice between the ANC's heart and its head would shape the next decade. He argued the most telling result came not from Johannesburg but from Howick, where Chris Pappas grew the DA's majority in a seat everyone expected him to lose. He weighed the odds of an ANC-DA deal, questioned what corporate South Africa got for its campaign money, and suggested the DA might be better off sitting out bad coalitions until 2029. He also gave a blunt verdict on Gayton McKenzie's PA, and on whether new parties stand a chance.