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Across southern Africa, sitting presidents have faced a wave of turnovers<\/a> and electoral setbacks in the past few years.<\/p>\n Malawi<\/a> and Botswana<\/a> saw opposition victories. In Namibia<\/a> and South Africa<\/a>, incumbents were re-elected, but with significantly smaller majorities.<\/p>\n In Zambia, the Patriotic Front suffered a humiliating defeat<\/a> in 2021 as voters reacted to poor economic performance<\/a>. This resulted in a new government led by Hakainde Hichilema<\/a> and his United Party for National Development.<\/p>\n \n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Across southern Africa, sitting presidents have faced a wave of turnovers and electoral setbacks in the past few years. Malawi and Botswana saw opposition victories. In Namibia and South Africa, incumbents were re-elected, but with significantly smaller majorities. In Zambia, the Patriotic Front suffered a humiliating defeat in 2021 as voters reacted to poor economic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":241962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,15571,4854,3119,6427,19771,257,7779,254,13969,17860,881,8982],"class_list":["post-241961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-decisive","tag-democracy","tag-election","tag-government","tag-messy","tag-news","tag-shows","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strength","tag-weakness","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambias"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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