Germaniac
Donor
Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to create a TL where Helen Zille, the leader of the Democratic Alliance (the opposition to the ANC), become president of South Africa after the 2009 elections.
The Democratic Alliance has been gaining considerable support over the last few elections. While there is still a huge discrepancy in the number of votes, 11.6M to 2.9, the DA is a growing force of opposition to the monopoly the ANC has had over the assembly since the end of Apartheid. She has done a marvelous job in Cape Town, but Cape Town does not represent the whole of South Africa.
Perhaps a greater row which splits the ANC even more and the Congress of the People party takes a significant number of seats away, forming a coalition with the DA.
The Democratic Alliance has been gaining considerable support over the last few elections. While there is still a huge discrepancy in the number of votes, 11.6M to 2.9, the DA is a growing force of opposition to the monopoly the ANC has had over the assembly since the end of Apartheid. She has done a marvelous job in Cape Town, but Cape Town does not represent the whole of South Africa.
Perhaps a greater row which splits the ANC even more and the Congress of the People party takes a significant number of seats away, forming a coalition with the DA.