LGE2021 | Load shedding could see ANC support dip below 50%
Outraged protesters complaining about power outages last week could disrupt President Cyril Ramaphosa and Deputy President David Mabuza’s campaigns to garner votes for the ANC, while party sources fear that the introduction of stage 4 load shedding this past Wednesday could drive middle-class voters to other parties.“Our [internal] polls have already not looked good in the [Gauteng] metros, so it does not bode well for Monday,” said the source.
“The ANC can come and run its campaign when they turn on our electricity again,” Lerato Mokoena, one of the protesters, told News24.When Ramaphosa arrived in Ekurhuleni on Thursday, the day after Eskom introduced stage 4 load shedding, protesters warned him on posters: “No power, no vote!”After he initially avoided the media’s questions about the power crisis, Ramaphosa turned to the crowd and said: “This thing of ‘no electricity, no vote’ must stop now.
In September, Ramaphosa’s sister, Ivy, had to call police to her home in Chiawelo, Soweto, when protesters ordered her to “call your brother” during an unplanned power outage so that their power supply could be restored. DA sources described load shedding on Thursday as “manna from heaven” for their election campaign, especially because the party proclaims that the DA “wants to end load shedding”.
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