ANC gets 'overwhelming mandate' from South African voters

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: AFP

Final results were expected Friday, but with about 95 percent of the ballots counted, the ANC had garnered a thumping 62.5 percent of the popular vote, spelling a parliamentary majority big enough to hand embattled President Jacob Zuma a second five-year term.
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But with 62.5 percent, it would still fall short of the two-thirds majority needed to amend the constitution and will see its winning margin reduced for a second consecutive election, down from 66 percent at the last poll.

Meanwhile the main opposition party, the centrist Democratic Alliance, made rapid gains, boosted by a strong urban turnout.

Its share of the vote rose to 22 percent, up from 17 percent at the last election in 2009, according to the incomplete results, and looked set to top the polls in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

Julius Malema's populist Economic Freedom Fighters gained 6.1 percent of the vote, less than a year after the party was formed. It garnered more than one million votes.

Read more: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140509/anc-gets-overwhelming-mandate-south-african-voters

[Crowman1979]

1. Even though today's ANC has its flaws. It is still much better than the so-called EFF.

And from what I heard and read. Julius Malema is a f***in' idiot, as well as being an admirer of Robert Mugabe.

[DavidDvorkin]

2. That's the ANC spin

The ANC percentage of the vote keeps dwindling. It's still huge, but the trend is clear.

And the DA's share keeps growing.