WI/AHC - Another party wins South African Elections

For the past 23 years since Apartheid ended, South Africa has been ruled the African National Congress.

What if though another party or more managed to gain power from the 1999 South African General Elections onwards up to the present and what would be the best way of making such an ATL scenario a realistic possibility?
 
have more splinter parties i guess like COPE etc, making it easier for disenfranchised ANC voters going to these other parties which then form some kind of grand coalition.

One thing that would immediately help is maybe having a DA member who was black and was apart of the apartheid struggle (it just so happens that they were more conservative). Not sure who fits that bill to be honest in the late 90's and who is going to leave Mandela's party in the late 90's.

For 2014, Gupta scanalds comes out earlier along with Nkandla and then it becomes feasible that a grand coalition could topple the ANC (like they did at the municipal elections last year).

Ultimately though, parties have to do a lot (and i mean A LOT) better in rural areas. The only other party that gets any seats in rural areas is Inkatha in Northern KZN and i think EFF in Limpopo (could be wrong about that). If any of the other major parties had some kind of rural presence nationally that could compete against the ANC at least, they'd win comfortably.
 
You'll need a POD in the 1980s for this to happen. There's almost no conceivable way the ANC could lose an election in the 20 years since apartheid ended, it is almost a religious institution, that is how much faith people used to have in it.

What could happen is that the UDF doesn't effectively become the internal wing of the ANC. Thus when the various organisations are unbanned, the UDF becomes an actual political party, which contests elections. It could conceivably challenge the ANC's 1990s hegemony.
 
Having earlier splinter parties like COPE or even the UDF breaking with the ANC and becoming an actual political party would be one idea to topple the ANC from power, is there anything in terms of scandal and corruption within the ANC that such ATL parties could further capitalize on?
 
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