ANC support plummets: Election'24 on a coalition knife edge
As the election looms, recent polls signal a seismic shift in ANC support, falling below 50 percent, a trend unseen since 1994.
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As the election looms, recent polls signal a seismic shift in ANC support, falling below 50 percent, a trend unseen since 1994.
Just months before the election, a new party is upending earlier polls and multiplying the coalition possibilities after May 29th. The uMkhonto we Sizwe Party, (MK Party), endorsed by former President Jacob Zuma, could make deep inroads into ANC support in KwaZulu-Natal, and even nationally.
In a political shake-up, the uMkhonto we Sizwe Party, endorsed by former President Jacob Zuma, is rapidly gaining ground.
By a confluence of things that could not have been designed for better effect, ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula succeeded spectacularly last week in advertising the governing party’s increasingly baffling search for meaning.
Later this month the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, will present a budget against a backdrop of disappointment. The country’s economic growth rate this year is likely to be lower than previously expected, and the budget deficit and public debt will be higher as a share of GDP.