ANC continua largamente maioritário

Enough black voters have stayed loyal to the ANC in local elections to boost Jacob Zuma’s hopes of a second presidential term.
In spite of many failures in governance and widespread anger among its supporters, the ruling African National Congress decisively won the municipal elections on 18 May. Popular discontent about the corruption, incompetence and indifference of the ANC’s leaders was not enough to tip core voters into rival political camps. President Jacob Zuma emerged with stronger prospects of winning re-election as party leader next year.
The ANC’s share of the vote fell from 66% in 2006 to around 63.5%. The Democratic Alliance (DA) increased its share from 16% to about 22%. The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) took 3.94%, the National Freedom Party 2.58% and the Congress of the People (COPE) 2.33%. The DA increased its support in eight out of nine provinces, while the ANC’s declined in every province except KwaZulu-Natal, where it and the new NFP took votes from the IFP. The ANC won the big cities of Johannesburg, Pretoria (Tshwane), Durban, Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth (Mandela Bay), but the DA took Cape Town and most of the councils in Western Cape. Voter turnout was 57.6%, the highest for a local government election since 1994. Africa Confidential