The ANC is projected to win 57% of the national vote. Yet this is not an enthusiastic endorsement
“I AM WHAT I am today because of the ANC,” says Princess Kgosimang, as she walks the short distance from her house in Soweto to the polling station. The 71-year-old lists the ways her life has improved since the end of apartheid. She has a home of her own, a state pension of 1,700 rand per month and her grandchildren go to multiracial schools.
Not that the results were especially encouraging for the two main opposition parties: the Democratic Alliance and the Economic Freedom Fighters . Though it will retain majority control of the Western Cape province, which it has governed since 2009, the DA seems to have made little progress nationally since 2014, when it won 22% of the vote. It is projected to win a marginally lower share this time around, according to Mr Scholtz.
Though the official final tallies will not be declared until the weekend, attention is already turning to what the results mean for reform under Mr Ramaphosa, whose inauguration is scheduled for May 25th. South Africa is in a perilous state. The official unemployment rate is 27%, debt to GDP has more than doubled over the past decade to 56%, and Eskom, the state-owned utility, struggles to keep the lights on.
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