Spy Ghana - May 12, 2014
Twenty years after Freedom Day in 1994, the African National Congress
(ANC) has won overwhelmingly in the fifth national democratic elections
held inside the country. The ANC, which has dominated South African
politics for decades even prior to coming to power two decades ago in
the first non-racial democratic elections, officially received 62.5
percent of the vote.
Following way behind the ANC is the Democratic Alliance (DA) headed
by Helen Zille, the former mayor of Cape Town, which gained 22 percent
of the vote. This represents an increase of five percentage points since
2009 but leaving it one-third of the support earned by the ANC.
Perhaps the most significant development in the national poll was the
performance of the newly-formed Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) led by
Julius Malema, the ousted president of the ANC Youth League. The EFF won
6 percent of the vote and is now the third party behind the DA and the
ANC.
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