The iconography of persuasion
South Africa’s 2019 elections, like others before, will be remembered for the historical significance around the ANC ruling party’s sharp decline in polls, the surging and re-emergence of the ideologically extreme parties, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the Freedom Front Plus (VF+). This e...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Johannesburg
2022-10-01
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| Series: | Communicare |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/1512 |
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| Summary: | South Africa’s 2019 elections, like others before, will be remembered for the historical significance
around the ANC ruling party’s sharp decline in polls, the surging and re-emergence of the
ideologically extreme parties, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the Freedom Front Plus
(VF+). This election, for the first time since the rebranding of the main opposition, the Democratic
Alliance, saw that party losing its momentum, culminating in the eventual resignation of the party’s
first black leader, Mmusi Maimane. This study examines how the three dominant parties in South
Africa contest with each other in the race to attract potential voters through poster advertising and
campaigns. Going into the 2019 election, the three dominant political parties were – the African
National Congress (ANC), the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF).
Specifically, the paper examines messages on the posters, the parties’ manifestos and speeches
at different rallies before the elections. Drawing on our analysis, we make a claim in this paper
that the 2019 election in South Africa for the ANC, DA and EFF was largely about “unresolved
questions”.
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| ISSN: | 0259-0069 2957-7950 |