FRIDAY BRIEFING: Election estimates – Where the votes could go, and why
South Africa can be a lot. This week, we had to deal with stage 4 load shedding and the prospect of stage 5 and stage 6 ensuing, corruption implicated ANC members making it back onto the party list and subsequently, into Parliament, and continued revelations of state capture before the Zondo commission of inquiry.
In the news this week was a devastating cyclone in our neighbouring countries, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, several shocking shootings on our roads, the high profile trial of accused wife murderer Rob Packham, and, to top it all, Rachel Kolisi going social media berserk on a gym instructor who allegedly slid into husband Siya's DMs.
All the while we are slowly edging closer to the national and provincial elections on May 8 With everything going on, this year's election results seem to be the most unpredictable and uncertain yet. Many things can still change that could affect the final outcome. In this week's edition of Friday Briefing political analyst and statistics whizz Dawie Scholtz gives us his best-guess estimates of how the chips may fall. News24 columnist Mpumelelo Mkhabela writes about the message another ANC victory would send South Africans and reputation manager Solly Moeng gives us his reasons for why he thinks many South Africans are considering voting for the ruling party.
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