There is a shortage of left-wing parties participating in the upcoming elections. The Socialist Revolutionary Workers' Party (SRWP), which participated in the 2019 national and local elections, is not registered for the 2024 elections, the authors write. (Garo Images)
argue that movements to the left of the political spectrum serve to reinforce the perception that we are facing a general crisis of leadership in South Africa Ebrahim Harvey.
South Africans will once again go to the polls on May 29 without a socialist party dedicated to the interests and needs of the black working class majority whose lives are being destroyed by poverty, unemployment and worsening social inequality. Become. Even the Socialist Revolutionary Workers' Party (SRWP), which participated in the 2019 national and local elections, has not registered for the 2024 elections.
The SRWP's absence is likely a result of its pitifully poor result in the 2019 election, with just 25,000 votes, or less than 1% of the total vote. In fact, the vote share was only 0.14%.
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