Analyst: ANC could still win majority at polls
A Wits University academic believes the ANC could still win an outright majority in this month's polls.
The ruling party has been crisscrossing the country trying to convince voters to give it another five years in power amid concerns over corruption, crime, and erratic water and electricity supply.
Many analysts are predicting it could drop below 50% nationally in the general election.
But Professor Susan Booysen says that in marking 30 years of democracy, memories of some of the achievements since 1994 could favour the ruling party.
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She spoke at a Human Sciences Research Council's election dialogue on coalition government on Monday.
"Because the ANC is campaigning, and they are campaigning heavily and powerfully. There is a very powerful election campaign unfolding, which does mean, yes, there is a possibility that they can reach 50%. It is very difficult for many voters to discard the serious contrast the ANC is drawing in its election campaign between post-apartheid and pre-apartheid."
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