Political analysts believe the extent of the alleged looting in the province could cost the ANC dearly at the polls.
Twenty-eight parties have registered to contest provincial and national elections in the Free State on May 8, 12 more than the 2014 polls.While this is not significant in terms of the impact on the top three parties in the Free State – the ANC, the EFF, and the DA – analysts say it mirrors the discontent of South Africans at a national level.
Van Onselen said there was little evidence to suggest this would be reversed in the upcoming election. Associate professor of politics at the University of Johannesburg, Dr Ncebisi Ndletyana told ANA that the book “will most likely have [an] impact in the Free State”. Ndletyana said new small parties could pull new voters into the electoral process, but it was difficult to determine how significant an impact they might have: “It depends on their identity and target support if they have an impact. African Transformation Movement , for instance, that party is going to rival the ANC because they will speak to the same constituency and also that church-related constituency that the ANC has always appealed to in the past.
Political analyst Ralph Mathekga said the Free State had a reputation for occupying centre stage of corruption in the country.
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