CSIR: ‘ANC seems set to lose majority’

ELECTIONS NEWS - The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) predicts that when all the votes are in, the ANC’s support will stand at about 42%, a massive decline of 15% since Cyril Ramaphosa took over the reins in 2019.

This means that the ANC will have to go into coalition with at least one party in order to obtain the necessary 201 seats in the national assembly or else be relegated to the opposition benches for the first time in 30 years.

At 11:00 today the ANC was in the lead nationally with 41,96% of the vote, followed by the DA at 23,27% and the MK Party at 11, 34%. The EFF was fourth with 9,52% of the vote. By 11:00 58,09% of the votes had been counted, so in spite of predictions the picture can still change.

In the Western Cape the DA is sitting pretty with more than 52% of the vote, followed by the ANC at 20,41% and the PA 8,96% with 68,32% of provincial votes counted. In the Eastern Cape the ANC has a comfortable lead of more than 65% with the DA on just 12,5%. In Gauteng the support is spread more equally with the ANC at 33,37% and the DA at 29,16%. IN KZN the MK Party still has a huge lead of 43,77% with the ANC trailing behind with 18,19%. The IFP has 17, 44%. In all the other provinces the ANC is in the lead.