By staring fixedly at the IEC’s results screens, talking up their parties’ chances to journalists, and engaging in some friendly competitive banter with other parties.
Sisulu offered DA KZN provincial leader Zwakele Mncwango some help: “We’ll give you headache tablets, because you’ll need them for tonight”, before asking Congress of the People officials when they were throwing in the towel and re-joining the ANC. BLF’s provincial spokesperson Thobani Zikalala had celebrated his birthday on election day, but it seemed that South African voters were unlikely to give him the present he hoped for — “more than three seats, maybe five” in the National Assembly.
Khoza said that the EFF was confident the final 2019 results would prove that the party has found traction even in provinces such as KwaZulu-Natal, where the Fighters have struggled to gain a foothold in the past.We just went all out for all provinces because we want to change the narrative that says there are certain places where the organisation cannot grow. We even sent our people to go and vote in Orania, so taxis arrived in Orania because you could vote anywhere.
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