ANC and INC: Story of two grand old parties and their one big crisis

As South Africa starts voting and India gets set to wrap up its second-longest election in history, a look at the similarities in the rise, stagnation and fall of the two political parties in the two countries read more India and South Africa have had many things in common. They were ruled by a common foreign power — the British, which out-competed its rivals through the 18th and the 19th centuries to establish strong colonial rules in resource-rich countries that supplied cheap labour for its industries. The two countries had to wage long nonviolent struggles to win equality and freedom…