South Africa's ruling African National Congress staged its last major stadium rally Saturday ahead of next week's election,
South Africa's ruling African National Congress staged its last major stadium rally Saturday ahead of next week's election,
“We will do more and we will do better,” the 71-year-old millionaire former businessman told the crowd, branding the ANC “the only political party in the whole of South Africa that can bring so many people together in one place”. Up against 51 opposition outfits, Ramaphosa still expects to lead the biggest single bloc in the National Assembly, but if he falls below 50 percent he may struggle to build a coalition of MPs to re-elect him.
And the great unknown is former president Jacob Zuma and his newly formed uMkhonto we Sizwe . Zuma, who has a conviction for contempt of court, has been barred from standing to be an MP and thus from the presidency. But many in the country of 62 million are fed up with high and growing unemployment, currently at 32.9 percent, as well as rampant crime, corruption, power cuts and water shortages.About 27 million people are registered to vote on May 29. They will elect the 400 members of the National Assembly, which then chooses the president.
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