Struggle politics put ANC in driver's seat #Elections2019

LONDON — Most opinion polls on this week’s election give the ANC a majority, anything from the mid-50s to 60%. With the recent tsunami of corruption in the Zuma-era unearthed by the Zondo and Mpati commissions, it raises the question of why so many South Africans would still feel inclined to give their support to the ANC. It appears that the answer to that question is that although it is a quarter of a century since the country’s first election, the political struggle against the apartheid government still dominates when voters have to decide who they want to govern South Africa into the future. This was also evident among ANC-voters we interviewed here in London, who acknowledged that the ANC lost its way, but they believed firmly that their organisation would find its way back to the principles of the anti-apartheid struggle. But many of them told us, this is the last chance they are giving the ANC. - Linda van Tilburg