S. Africa Opposition Would Only Do ANC Deal to Avert ‘Doomsday’

A “doomsday scenario” in which the ANC teams up with the Economic Freedom Fighters or the Jacob Zuma-backed uMkhonto weSizwe Party, or MKP, may force the more centrist DA to change its strategy of refusing to deal with the ANC, DA leader John Steenhuisen said in an interview on Thursday.
Opinion polls suggest the ANC will lose its overall national majority for the first time since it came to power three decades ago in the May 29 vote. An outcome in which no party secured more than a 50% majority might force the ANC to seek coalition partners like the EFF and the MKP – a scenario…