Zimbabwe Election a Foreboding of What’s to Come in South Africa, Analysts Say

They say the governing parties have much in common, including corruption.

Some of South Africa's most astute political minds are forecasting that the ruling African National Congress is set to lose support to smaller parties at the upcoming polls. Darren Taylor

JOHANNESBURG—The governing parties of South Africa and Zimbabwe are fond of quoting Frantz Fanon, the Afro-Caribbean political philosopher and Marxist from the former French colony of Martinique.

Fanon was especially famous in the 1950s and ‘60s, publishing several books that became seminal texts for groups fighting against colonialism.