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One last chance: that’s the message to the ANC from the electorate, as it slipped below the psychological 60% threshold for the first time in a national election.

While the large parties lost out, smaller parties cashed in, largely at the DA’s expense. The Freedom Front Plus expected to almost double its support.According to predictions by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and the SABC at the time of writing, the ANC was likely to emerge with about 58% of the vote, the DA 21% and the Economic Freedom Fighters are expected to come in at 10%.

Gauteng was on a knife-edge, with the CSIR predicting that the ANC may or may not breach the 50% mark. “This election has largely been about local issues, less so about the national issues. The national issues have been about jobs and we are committed that we are going to embark on a process of growing our economy, of attracting investment and the outcome of this election will be a major boost … So this vote is about confidence,” he said.

Should predictions prove correct, the DA is likely to lose its status as official opposition in another two provinces. It lost its status as the second-largest party, or official opposition, in both the North West and Limpopo when the EFF contested its first national election in 2014. Insiders concerned over a potential pushback from the more liberal block in the DA said Maimane is likely going to have to answer for the loss and may even face the axe.

Dream on. You just took the compromised Luthuli House out of your sweet equation.

Thats a decline, below 60 % which they got in the previous election.

Your headline are contrary to what ANC SG alluded yesterday

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