Cape Town - The country's national election on Wednesday is set to test whether the ruling ANC party has staunched a decline in popularity caused by corruption scandals, lacklustre growth and record unemployment.
Support for the ANC has fallen in every election since 2004 with the party winning just 54 percent in 2016 local elections, compared with 62 percent in the last national vote in 2014. Ramaphosa, seen as a pro-business moderate, is a former anti-apartheid activist and trade union leader who was Mandela's apparent favourite to succeed him as president.
"He is not aligned with Zuma and is driving an anti-corruption campaign and reform agenda aimed at reversing the damage inflicted during Zuma's tenure." State-owned companies were at the centre of corruption scandals under Zuma, with power-supplier Eskom now laden with huge debts and forced to ration electricity to many homes, shop and offices.
According to Intellidex Capital research, the party is forecast to make only marginal gains from the 22 percent it won in 2014 after struggling to make ground against Ramaphosa -- a more widely popular figure than Zuma.But the radical leftist EFF, founded just six years ago by a former ANC youth leader Julius Malema, is predicted to make major inroads, growing from 6.3 percent to a forecast 11 percent.
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