2019 Elections: Analysis: A win below 60% is good for Cyril Ramaphosa, actually By Ferial Haffajee ferialhaffajee
A 57% win puts South Africa into a post-liberation movement era as the ANC is now a political party in which the link between its performance and its electoral outcomes is growing – this can only be good news.
As politics is normalised and South Africa begins to witness proper electoral contests, Ramaphosa’s reform agenda may, in fact, best be served by the likely victory of about 57% he has secured as head of his party.It’s what we predicted. We are happy with the result at a 65% turnout,” said the party’s deputy secretary-general, Jessie Duarte, adding that the outcome gave Ramaphosa a mandate for “renewal”.
It keeps the anti-reformists in check and prevents back-sliding into the patronage systems and open corruption that saw the ANC drop to just 54% of total support in the local government election in 2016; at the height of the revelations of state capture by former ANC president Jacob Zuma, the party’s support levels dipped below 50% in opinion polls in 2017.
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