Young voters can’t be bothered, or are they just fed-up? #Elections2019
Young South Africans are turning their backs on elective politics at the fastest pace in at least two decades, a trend that may hurt the ruling party in next week’s vote.
Young South Africans are turning their backs on elective politics at the fastest pace in at least two decades, a trend that may hurt the ruling party in next week’s vote.
Granville Abrahams from the IEC, at the polling booths in London, said the commission has learnt from the mistakes of the past and are pleased with how smooth the voting went.
There’s a big question mark over whether Cyril Ramaphosa is getting the balance right between fixing the country and keeping his ANC comrades on side.
The issue of race is one of the twelve questions that Frans Cronje from the Institute of Race Relations would like to pose to the DA.
Stephen Grootes poses the question whether Ace Magashule has a pack waiting quietly in the shadows to move in after the elections or whether he finds himself in a lonely corner before he is nabbed by the country’s prosecutors?
The long queues before the South African Embassy in London before the polls opened this weekend in the UK for overseas voting, is a good indication of how enthusiastic overseas voters are about the 8 May elections.
Cyril Ramaphosa said he was disappointed, but confidently predicted S&P “will soon have reason” to raise the rating up. Dare we hope for something bold after May 8?
S&P Global Ratings expects South Africa’s ruling party to continue with policy reforms after the May 8 election, and that’s why it has a stable outlook on the nation’s credit rating.
The polls suggest that the ANC remains far out in front of any other party. But it could be stopped, not by another party, but by an All-Star Coalition, says Chuck Stephens.
Kanthan Pillay is documenting the journey to election 2019. Here are the first two instalments in his series leading up to May 8.