2019 ELECTIONS: RESULTS : Gauteng: ANC retain a hold in key service delivery protest hot spots

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2019 ELECTIONS: RESULTS : Gauteng: ANC retain a hold in key service delivery protest hot spots By Daily Maverick Team

In the run-up to the elections, protesting residents of Alexandra, next door to Sandton, said they were still living in squalor 25 years after democracy, despite the R1.6-billion earmarked for the Alexandra Renewal Project.There were concerns about the potential effect of the protests on voting results.

One Alex district showed significant gains for the ANC, which went from receiving 67.43% in the 2014 election, to 73.61% of the vote in 2019. He cautioned people not to treat every service delivery protest, especially building up to the elections, as a service delivery protest, saying that some were “manufactured outrage” by other political parties.The EFF had stated that they are aware that the ANC is behind had staged these protests, particularly the Alex one. These things have a strong ANC influence on them, and it hasn’t seemed to have helped the ANC either,” he said.Ennerdale is notorious for protests.

The party suffered a slight loss in one other district, from 56.49% to 55.65%, while the EFF again posted an increase to 17.53% from 9.11%.Although the scale of protests in Pennyville – in early April – was not as large as those in Alexandra and Ennerdale, they were again driven by inadequate service delivery.

 

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iq scientifically proven below 66. protests, yes, but afraid to loose their grants ? that's a big yes as well.

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