An unlikely new governing alliance gives the country a chance to address its pressing problems.

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That giant whooshing sound you may have heard coming from Africa’s southern tip was a collective sigh of relief. South Africa’s top two political parties — the ruling African National Congress and the longtime opposition Democratic Alliance — managed to put aside their differences to form a national unity government and reelect Cyril Ramaphosa as president.

And that popping noise? That would have been the sound of heads exploding among the country’s radical socialists, populists and ethno-nationalists. They can’t countenance the idea of the continent’s most storied Black liberation movement sharing power with the party known as the representative of wealthy White suburbia.

Such a governing alliance seemed unlikely before the May 29 election, which left the ANC shorn of its parliamentary majority and needing a coalition partner to stay in power. But this........

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