According to a recent opinion poll by Ipsos, the ANC is on course to win its sixth national election with more than 60% of the vote, writes Bekezela Phakathi
According to a recent opinion poll by Ipsos, the ANC is on course to win its sixth national election with more than 60% of the votePeople drive cars past electoral campaign posters on an highway in Kenilworth, Cape Town. Picture: RODGER BOSCH / AFP
According to a recent opinion poll by research firm Ipsos, the ANC is on course to win its sixth straight national election, likely securing 61% of the vote based on a 71% voter turnout. This is despite damning bribery and corruption claims against government and ANC officials that have come up at the ongoing commission of inquiry into state capture.
But coalitions have proved problematic in recent times. Following the municipal elections in 2016, several political parties joined forces to elect DA mayors in hung municipalities, including Johannesburg, Tshwane and Nelson Mandela Bay. The collapse of the DA-led coalition rule in Nelson Mandela Bay in 2018 illustrated the fragility attached to such coalitions.
“During last two weeks we have seen disgusting pamphlets and heard radio adverts created and circulated by the DA repeating this blatant lie,” said Ebrahim Rasool, the ANC’s head of elections in the Western Cape. “It is the DA [that] compromised their values when they joined the EFF in coalition in Tshwane and Johannesburg after the 2016 local government elections.
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