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 Do you know why they have elections in late May in South Africa?

Holding elections right before a cold front in the beginning of winter helps discourage riots and protesting while the new government takes the reigns. 

Just a fun fact. 
 > "Then you have the potential domestic fallout from a Trump win with leftists rioting across the country (as soon as the weather warms up enough enough for their dainty little hands to throw bricks and Molotovs). The goal of the leftist mob is to force conservatives to act like the very “fascists” the activists accuse us of being. Of course, if that happened they would be dead, but they will have destroyed the conservative moral ideal in the process.

> These are the kinds of people we’re dealing with. They aren’t going to sit back and let us prove the country can function far better without progressive influence and woke social engineering. They would rather burn the whole thing to the ground first.

> My point is, always be on guard in the moments when you think you’re winning. That’s when the people that mean you harm will be most angry, when they will be most unhinged, and when they will be most inclined to strike."
 https://alt-market.us/losing-power-the-elites-and-the-leftist-mob-would-rather-burn-it-all-to-the-ground/#:~:text=Then%20you%20have%20the,most%20inclined%20to%20strike.