I'm John Baxworth running words with the geopolitical futures who's an analyst at

geopolitical futures as subscription site I hardly recommend. He's in Cape Town, South Africa. He's also the

host of Geopolitical Pickle, a podcast of which I recommend. We're discussing the ANC, the African National Congress, which no longer has a majority on its own in the Parliament and has so many days to form a new government.

It would be a minority government government technically, could be called a

unity government, and that offer has been made and pushed back by government, by

parties that have fewer votes than the ANC but would be a combination to give a majority.

The logical one is the DA, called the DA, which is an all-white party, and as Ronan has explained, a number of the however the IFP I believe it's called but it is a it doesn't provide what the

ANC needs but it does provide a measure of unity so that AN ANC could work with another element or any breakaways from other parties.

However, Ronan, I've read that the Zulu are momentarily debating being separatist.

Is that true?

Are they unhappy with this result?

I believe that's more the party of Jacob Zuma,

the MK party. so the Zulu's ethnicity here that

mostly belongs to the the eastern the northeastern region of the country up near

Mozambique border as well as Kuzulu Nautel, the largest

and most populous province of South Africa.

Even within the Zulu people, there's a lot of divisions.

So it's interesting actually to look at the provincial results from the election,

especially in KZN, Kuzulu N, Kuzulu N N, Kuzulu N,

N, where it's Jacob Zuma's party because Zuma himself is an ethnic

Zulu and it got 45% of the vote, 46% of the

free freedom party, where they're in that region was really the only region which had any representation from the IFP in the free freedom party where they

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