With official vote counting moving closer to its conclusion, ruling party ANC has already amassed a strong lead, with the DA trailing far behind and the EFF still fighting for relevance.
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Cyril Ramaphosa’s first major test will be the announcement of a reduced Cabinet. He has said that the executive needs to be trimmed and his supporters will hold him to this promise, writes Adriaan Basson.
The people have spoken. They have handed President Cyril Ramaphosa one chance to save South Africa and clean up the mess left by his predecessor, Jacob Zuma.
The ANC’s electoral victory has been the country’s gift to Ramaphosa, a trade unionist-turned-millionaire-businessman who played the long game and remained in Zuma’s slipstream during the “nine wasted years”.
Had Ramaphosa not emerged victorious from the ANC’s Nasrec conference in December 2017, the party may have been voted out of power this week. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who has subsequently become one of Ramaphosa’s closest allies, was just too close to the Zupta’s state capture fire.
After elections, it’s about jobs, investor confidence – and avoiding a Moody’s downgrade
Following the elections, South Africa needs an “enhanced government-business growth coalition” to allow the country to win back the trust of investors and ratings agencies, economist at the North West University Business School, Professor Raymond Parsons, has said.
Parsons is a referential economic commentator, having analysed and studied most of democratic South Africa’s economic trajectory. He authored books including The Mbeki Inheritance in 1999, and Zumanomics, published in 2013.
#SAElections2019 | It's a slow start this morning at the IEC results centre here in Pretoria west.
Political party representatives are yet to make their way to the centre. pic.twitter.com/WFBzETxHFa
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The African National Congress (ANC) is set to remain the governing party in the Eastern Cape following Wednesday’s general election.
By 9pm on Thursday, the ANC had garnered 1 095 664 votes (68.11%), the Democratic Alliance was on 266 660 (16.58%), while the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) were sitting at 122 063 votes (7.59%), with 83% of the vote counted…Read more here
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