Election2019Results 'That's nonsense. People are electing the ANC. It's not about any individual.'
Magashule said that the ANC would have still received the same results which, at the time of his media briefing, saw the ANC sitting at 57% with about 90% of all voting districts declared.Mbalula said on Thursday that if Ramaphosa had not won at the party's 2017 Nasrec conference, the ANC would have sunk to 40% in these elections.Meanwhile, Magashule blamed the bad weather in the Free State which continued until well after midnight for the low turnout of voters.
"Have you seen what the weather has done in the Free State?" asked Magashule, who was at the helm of the party in the province for 22 years. "We are not the IEC, we could not have extended the voting hours. Even if we could extend the hours in parts of the Free State, it rained until well after midnight," said Magashule.
With about 90% of all voting districts already declared by Friday afternoon, the IEC looks set to declare all stations later on Friday.
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