{"id":13620,"date":"2024-05-30T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T21:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=13620"},"modified":"2024-05-30T00:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T21:00:17","slug":"in-south-africa-poll-some-anc-voters-lose-patience-with-their-liberators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=13620","title":{"rendered":"In, \u00a0South\u00a0Africa\u00a0poll, some ANC voters lose patience with their liberators"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/in-south-africa-poll-some-anc-voters-lose-patience-with-their-liberators.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0The long queues of voters recalled\u00a0South\u00a0Africa\u2019s 1994 ballot that ended white minority rule and ushered in democracy, but for many, gratitude to the ruling\u00a0African National Congress (ANC) for their historic liberation is wearing thin.As\u00a0South\u00a0Africans\u00a0cast their ballots\u00a0on Wednesday in the country\u2019s most unpredictable election in three decades of democracy, even some of those proud of Nelson Mandela\u2019s legacy party for the struggle against apartheid were losing patience with economic and social problems it has since failed to fix.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we voted in 1994 it was about Mandela. This is not the Mandela era anymore, things have changed for the worse,\u201d said Melanie Ross, 53, a teacher, speaking of the country\u2019s first democratic president, who spent 27 years in jail for fighting apartheid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had so much trust in (President) Cyril Ramaphosa but \u2026 maybe a change is good,\u201d she said at a polling station in the working class Cape Town suburb of Kewtown, home mainly to members of the mixed race community known in\u00a0South\u00a0Africa\u00a0as coloured.<\/p>\n<p>Just how many once loyal supporters of the ANC share this sentiment could play a significant role in determining its fortunes. Pollsters expect it to lose its parliamentary majority, forcing it into a coalition with one or more\u00a0smaller parties.<\/p>\n<p>Lwando Bangani, 29 and unemployed in the city of East London in the main ANC heartland,\u00a0was a lifelong ANC voter\u00a0but was now defecting to the Democratic Alliance (DA), \u201cbecause I want to see the ANC coming below 50%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Northcliff, a leafy Johannesburg suburb flanked by rocky hills, 60-year-old consultant Nathan Samuel\u00a0also\u00a0said he\u2019d been voting ANC his entire life, as a\u00a0South\u00a0African of Asian descent who opposed apartheid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI come from that era \u2026 The \u2018Free Mandela\u2019 campaign was a big part of my life,\u201d he said.\u00a0But now:\u00a0\u201cI want to vote change. For me, change means moving the ruling party to the opposition benches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other voters said they expect the ANC would still win a majority, but expected it would be chastened by losing some support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously the ANC won\u2019t be thrown out but it can be reduced,\u201d said\u00a0Sibusiso Mkhwanazi, 33,\u00a0in the tree-lined suburb of Craighall Park.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBAD APPLES\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite widespread discontent at persistent poverty and inequality, high unemployment and erratic power supply, analysts say there are so many uncertainties that making predictions about the size of the ruling party\u2019s vote loss is foolhardy.<\/p>\n<p>The electoral commission said on Wednesday that early indications suggested turnout would be higher than the 66% who voted in the 2019 election \u2013 a scenario Ipsos says would work against the ANC.<\/p>\n<p>Ebrahim Fakir of\u00a0South\u00a0Africa\u2019s Auwal Socio-Economic Research Institute, who predicts a slim ANC majority, doubts that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know if these voters are now turning out in order to reward or punish (the ANC),\u201d he said. \u201cThey might be turning out to punish \u2026 or they could be giving them one last chance,\u201d and he thinks it is more likely to be the latter.<\/p>\n<p>That would be the view of Marie Murdoch, a 76-year-old Johannesburg retiree from the brewery business, who said Ramaphosa deserved \u201ctime to finish the job\u201d after moving to rid the ANC of corrupt figures: \u201cHe has had a lot of trouble getting rid of the bad apples.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the ANC slips below 50%, which party will be kingmaker will depend both on how many extra seats it needs and which of the opposition parties it dislikes least. Among the potential coalition partners are the pro-business Democratic Alliance, the Marxist Economic Freedom Fighters and the Zulu nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africans are casting their ballots in the country&#8217;s most unpredictable election in three decades of democracy. Some voters are losing patience with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) due to economic and social problems it has failed to fix since the end of apartheid. 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