Its options are a coalition with the DA, which is in second place on 22%, or the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party led by former President Jacob Zuma, on 15%. He replaced Mr Zuma as both president and ANC leader following a bitter power struggle in 2018. But he ruled out the EFF and the MK party as potential coalition partners. A coalition with the radical left in South Africa of the MK party and the EFF will produce the same policies that destroyed Zimbabwe, destroyed Venezuela," he said. Patrick Gaspard, who was the US ambassador to South Africa in 2013-16, described the election results as a "moment of reckoning".
