Under the banner Siyanqoba , South Africa's governing African National Congress held its final rally on Saturday as it campaigns for a record seventh term in office.Apart from its low-quality campaign posters and T-shirts, it failed to fill the 90,000-seater football stadium in the historic township of Soweto, where the rally was held.
Opinion polls paint a different picture, suggesting that MK could get between 8% and 13% of the national vote, and help deny the ANC a parliamentary majority. But the president himself was rocked by a major scandal in 2022, after it emerged that he had stashed at least $580,000 of cash in a sofa on his game farm, with the money later stolen by robbers.
Mr Ramaphosa said that power stations were now being "better maintained", and the "excellent work" to tackle the energy crisis would be "completed" in the ANC's next term. But the DA has also been hit by splits. Two of its senior black leaders - Mmusi Maimane and Herman Mashaba - quit the party after the 2019 election, and have formed their own parties to contest Wednesday's election.Without naming it, he described the party's pledge to phase out the national minimum wage as "outrageous", especially "in these times of hardship".
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