Ruling African National Congress Party Confirmed Winner Of South Africa Election

[TheDemSocialist]

OHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's election commission completed a vote count that confirms the ruling African National Congress as the winner but also shows the strengthening of prominent opposition groups, according to results Saturday. The government said the election and its aftermath had gone smoothly, despite some scattered delays and disruptions, and an outbreak of street violence in a poor area of Johannesburg.
With all 22,000 voting districts counted, the African National Congress had 62.15 percent of the vote, several percentage points lower than its result in 2009 elections, the election commission said on its website. The main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, won 22.23 percent of the vote, an increase of more than 5 percent from 2009. The Economic Freedom Fighters, a new party that wants to distribute national resources to the poor, won 6.35 percent.
Voter turnout was 73 percent of the 25 million South Africans, or half the population, who registered for the national and provincial elections.

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The ANC will still be in power but seems to be getting weaker. I am very interested in this new EFF party. Its lead by the controversial figure Julius Milema. They seem to be taking a good chunk of vote share away fro the ANC. It will be interesting to see where the ANC and EFF go in the future.

 

[MichaelW]

From what I hear from South Africans, Julius Malema is a xenophobe. If the ANC is smart, they'll distance themselves from the EFF. In saying that, being an inefficient immoral corrupt morass that has done squat for South Africa's poorest in the 20 years they've been in power, it's still a surprise why they win every damned election.

Maybe having your main supporter base as a collection of barely educated desperately poor people who are easily misled is why.

 

[Joby]

A lot of different news sources say there's a lot of South Africans angry over corruption in the ANC but giving them another chance to right the ship and again voting them back in. Which, to me, makes it sound like they don't understand what elections are about. Just saying.