South Africa's opposition parties mounted an 11th-hour assault on Sunday on the ruling ANC's 30-year-old grip on power.
African National Congress supporters arrive by bus for the ANC’s last rally at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. Image: PHILL MAGAKOE / AFPAfrican National Congress supporters arrive by bus for the ANC’s last rally at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. Image: PHILL MAGAKOE / AFPDA the likely biggest opposition party
“Today our people are suffering under the unbearable burden of poverty, unemployment, crime. These disasters are not inevitable but were created by the ANC,” he said. “I want change. It’s too bad right now: no jobs, no nothing,” said 66-year-old job-seeker Isaac Tembo, who has voted for the ANC every five years since the advent of democracy in 1994.Zuma, who served as the ANC’s fourth president between 2009 and 2018 but left office dogged by graft allegations, can not stand for election but may still take votes from his former party.He was due to address a final weekend rally in one of the ANC’s rural strongholds, in the eastern province of Mpumalanga.
Polls suggest the ANC could win fewer than 201 seats in the 400-member National Assembly for the first time and be unable to elect a president without support from other parties. The DA had bussed her more than 900km from her Aston Bay home with her eight-year-old daughter for the rally.
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