South Africa resets: ANC dodges a spray of bullets, DA slumps and EFF keeps on trucking | PieterDuToit
There were some big smiles among senior ANC leaders at the IEC’s Results Operational Centre at the old Pretoria Showgrounds in Soutter Street on Thursday evening.
Maybe not disastrous, but certainly a calamity. Almost 350 000 white voters desterted the party, most of them in favour of the conservative Freedom Front Plus. “You guys always make a fucking mountain out of a molehill,” DA federal chairperson Athol Trollip responded when asked about their losses. “Why don’t you make an issue about Ramaphosa losing votes?”
To be clear, 57,1% is hardly a triumph. Slumping to below 60% in a general election could hasten its demise and the 2024 election could very well be the one where it might just lose its majority. The party has been on a downward trajectory since 2004 and the slip from 62,15% to 57,1% is the largest in its electoral history.
And even though it looks set to lose another three percentage points to take it to the brink, it isn’t half as bad as the previous drop.They might not admit it but if the DA cannot capitalise on the malaise in the ANC, during a time when the governing party is at its absolute weakest, bereft of authority and staring down the barrel, will they ever be able to?
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