Polls have closed now in South Africa. I’ll be at work soon and won’t be able to keep up with the vote-counting, but some early results have come through.
Update: with about 266,000 votes cast (out of an estimated total of about 23 million), we have:
- ANC – 54.91% (69.69%)
- DA – 29.89% (12.37%)
- COPE – 7.55% (-)
- ID – 3.22% (1.7%)
- FF+ – 2.28% (0.89%)
- IFP – 1.42% (6.97%)
In brackets is their 2004 performance.
If these results hold, it will be a disappointing result for the ANC, running perilously close to losing their majority. It appears that a two-thirds majority is out of reach. It is also a strong performance for Helen Zille’s Democratic Alliance, with almost 30%.
It also appears that Zille is on track to become Premier of Western Cape, where the DA is polling a solid majority. They are also running a close second in Gauteng. In comparison, the ANC won in every provincial legislature in 2004.
From far away I been following the lead up to and now the results are being shown on my screen,and it is good to note,that in this historical election of 2009 that democracy that has been misused by the ruling ANC, is now on the road of recovery,and at last we will have a strong opposition party that will keep the ANC BASTARDS HONEST.And may I say thank you Helen Zille it was through your efforts that democracy will remain a strong force in the future for a much better live for all,and not like in the previous election the ANC made South Africa a Black Power country,and not the rainbow nation as it should be.So to Helen Zille and her DA Party keep swimming upstream as the Salmon do,and next time around we will overcome the ANC and be the next democratic government of South Africa that shall rule for each and every ethnic group of South African citizens,as even though the ANC seems to have made it for a second term,I still d o not trust the BASTARDS
A MUCH BETTER LIFE AND NOT LIVE