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Ebrahim Harvey | South Africa's missing socialist voice in the 2024 polls

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There is a lack of political parties on the Left of the spectrum participating in the upcoming elections. The Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party (SRWP), which participated in the 2019 national and provincial elections, has not registered for the 2024 one, writes the author. (Gallo Images)
There is a lack of political parties on the Left of the spectrum participating in the upcoming elections. The Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party (SRWP), which participated in the 2019 national and provincial elections, has not registered for the 2024 one, writes the author. (Gallo Images)

Developments on the Left of the political spectrum serve to reinforce the perception that we have a generalised leadership crisis in South Africa, argues Ebrahim Harvey. 

Once again, South Africans go to the polls on 29 May without a socialist party dedicated to the interests and needs of the black working-class majority, whose lives are wrecked by worsening poverty, unemployment and social inequalities. Not even the Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party (SRWP), which had participated in the 2019 national and provincial elections, has registered for the 2024 one.

The absence of the SRWP is probably the result of their pathetically poor result of a mere 25 000 votes in the 2019 elections, failing to win even 1% of the total vote. It, in fact, got as little as 0.14% of the vote.

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