“South africa: ANC definitely get the majority”
“the ruling party, the ANC wins the south african elections and the safeguards definitely a majority.”
“the Result is a spigot for the country’s large maktparti, but president Cyril Ramaphosa can rule without other parties’ support.”
“Already early, the board foresaw a victory, with over 50 per cent of the ANC, but now has a sufficient number of votes counted for that everything else should be mathematically impossible, reports the AFP news agency.”
“At the clock 18 Swedish time, 95 percent of constituencies counted. The ANC had 57.7% of the votes cast.”
“For president Cyril Ramaphosa, who succeeded the korruptionsanklagade Jacob Zuma in december 2017, however, it can be a kind of pyrrhusseger. Ramaphosa has apologised for and promised to clean out corruption in the partileden and the state apparatus – which is not fallen well with the Zumaanhängare within the ANC.”
“– Ramaphosa must be very careful, for fear that the ANC is split, said Sydafrikaexperten Henning Malber, working at the Nordic africa institute, to the TT in relation to the results ticked up on Thursday.”
” If he had been tougher in the fight against corruption and punish those around Zuma had he sat cohesion in the ANC in the game. Now he has, at least on the surface, been able to maintain the fragile unity of the ANC, at the expense of some votes.”
“After the local elections in 2016, which the Jacob Zuma-led ANC won with just under 54 per cent, was the ruling party, to be depressed and on the decline.”
“It looks slightly brighter than that in the national elections.”
“As Henning Melber see it, the south african voters voted for.”
“The biggest oppositionsalternativet Democratic Alliance comes second with about 20 per cent of the votes. Vänsterpopulistiska Economic freedom fighters climb from 6 percent in the last election to about 10, and it comes third.”
“A final result is expected to be published during Saturday.”
“south Africa is the african continent’s most industrialized country and the second largest economy (after Nigeria).”
“Between 1948 and 1994, there were rasåtskillnadspolitik – apartheid in south Africa. Apartheid was to separate black and white in a racist regime that, among other things, prohibited blacks from moving freely in the ”
“In april 1994 was held the first general elections in which all could participate, regardless of skin color. The african national congress (ANC) with Nelson Mandela in the lead won a landslide victory. Since then, the party, which formed a resistance movement during the apartheid era, won all the parliamentary elections. In 2007, Jacob Zuma over the chairmanship of the ANC after Thabo Mbeki, in turn, Mandela’s successor.”
“Zuma’s time as ANC leader and south african president was marred by corruption scandals. In december 2017 took Cyril Ramaphosa over the leadership, and some months later even the presidency. During this year’s election campaign has Ramaphosa, among other things, promised new jobs, stronger growth and the reduction of inequalities between black and white.”
