Did South Africa switch futures in 2024?

Zoom out from the noise and you'll see that 2024 has been a discontinuation from a pattern that was becoming doggedly entrenched.

Does this now mean that the country has switched futures from one that was most likely to be to one that rather should be?

I offer the argument in favour of this switch in my latest Daily Maverick piece...

Does the new spirit of optimism in South Africa herald a switch of futures?
In November last year there was a tangible mood shift across the country many have been discussing ever since. The change was officially anointed with the crowning of the Springboks as Rugby World Cup champions in a sports stadium in France, but that singular moment of glory wasn’t the source of this switch.

Previously:

What would a socially cohesive South Africa look like and to what degree is it attainable by 2030?
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