SA parties are gearing up for a final weekend of stadium rallies ahead of what's expected to be the most tightly contested election ever.
South African parties are gearing up for a final boisterous weekend of stadium rallies ahead of what is expected to be the most tightly contested general election in decades.of President Cyril Ramaphosa, 71, plans to fill a 90 000-seat Johannesburg stadium with yellow-clad supporters on Saturday, in a bid to reclaim lost support and avert its worst electoral showing ever.
“Everybody is aware that change is in the air and voting this time will make a change,” said political analyst Sandile Swana.Under the slogan “Let’s do more together”, the ANC has sought to play up its achievements during the campaign. But many in the country of 62 million are fed up with high and still growing unemployment, currently at 32.9 percent, as well as rampant crime, corruption scandals, regular power cuts and water shortages.Opinion polls put the party of late anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela at about 40 percent, down from 57 percent at the last general election in 2019.About 27 million people are registered to vote on May 29.
Once an ANC stalwart, Zuma fell out with his former party after being forced from office in 2018 under a cloud of corruption allegations.
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