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Opposition attacks ANC in last rallies before vote
Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:35am EDT
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African opposition parties accused the ruling ANC of creating a culture of cronyism and corruption at closing rallies on Saturday before a parliamentary election this week.
The African National Congress is almost certain to win the April 22 election, but still faces its biggest challenge since coming to power at the end of apartheid in 1994.
The main issue is whether it can retain the two-thirds parliamentary majority it needs to change the constitution, as it faces criticism over its track record on crime, poverty and
AIDS.
The new breakaway Congress of the People (COPE) party, formed by ANC dissidents, hopes to tap into frustrations with ANC graft scandals.
State prosecutors have given the ANC a boost by dropping graft charges against party leader Jacob Zuma, whom the new parliament is certain to elect president.
Zuma has said the graft case was part of a political campaign to undermine him.
His ANC has promised to do more to bring economically disadvantaged blacks into the mainstream economy through land reform and affirmative action programs.
But Africa's biggest economy is on the brink of recession, and Zuma will be in a difficult position. Union allies are pushing him to spend more on the poor, while foreign investors crucial for growth fear he will steer the economy to the left.
COPE has changed the political landscape, but analysts say its chances of breaking the ANC's dominance have faded after an initial buzz.
Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said the ANC had let South Africa down after white-minority rule ended.
"We dared to believe in the even greater hope that South Africa could soon become an equally prosperous, fair and just society," he said.
"But soon our hopes were crushed on the anvil of the harsh realities that some unscrupulous members of the ruling party and erroneous policies imposed on us all."
On Friday the IFP accused the ANC of employing "terror tactics" and injuring 13 of its members in attacks ahead of the poll -- charges that the ANC denied.
Tensions between the parties go back to the apartheid era, when they fought over control of KwaZulu-Natal, the traditional home of Zuma's Zulu tribe. Continued...
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