Voters, particularly in urban areas, have delivered a snotklap of historic proportions for the ANC. By Thursday, the ANC is out in the cold in its largest region, eThekwini, with 42% support, and it just managed to hold on to Mangaung, its 1912 birthplace, with 50.5%.
That something was up, became clear late on Wednesday evening when groups of uniformed police popped up outside and inside the IEC Tshwane national results centre. On Thursday, the show of security was on full display while election business was still in process. That something was up, beca.
Twenty-seven years after South Africa was done dismantling the apartheid regime through a government of national unity, the country could again be on the brink of history.
Day two of the counting of ballots progressed slowly on Wednesday, with promises by the Electoral Commission of South Africa officials getting hopes up that things would have been over sooner. Day two of the counting of ballots progressed slowly on Wednesday, with promises by the Electoral Comm.