South Africa’s political parties launched a final boisterous weekend of stadium rallies and campaign walkabouts on Friday. Image: X/Our_DA
The latest opinion poll from the Social Research Foundation showed the party falling from 45.9 to 40.8 percent in a week, and even among the crowds waiting for the president in Soweto there were doubts. “The issues we are dealing with and they are talking about have been around since Mandela,” she said.Sliding under 50 percent would put the ANC in uncharted waters, forced to find coalition partners to remain in power.
But many in the country of 62 million are fed up with high and still growing unemployment, currently at 32.9 percent, as well as rampant crime, corruption scandals, regular power cuts and water shortages.Opinion polls put the party of late anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela at about 40 percent, down from 57 percent at the last general election in 2019.About 27.7 million people are registered to vote on May 29.
Both hover at around 10 percent and will rally crowds of supporters in the northwestern cities of Polokwane and Emalahleni on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.
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