South Africa goes to the elections early next month, in the first national elections since President Cyril Ramaphosa took over.
With just two weeks before South Africans cast their votes in the tightly-contested May 8 general elections, Gauteng province’s 18,176 square meters of heavily populated land area has been extensively crisscrossed by politicians soliciting votes.
With the Julius Malema-led Economic Freedom Fighters outfit not fielding any premier candidates because the party “does not believe in the separation of South Africa based on the nine provinces”, the bruising battle royale to be the Gauteng premier standing after May 8 has been left to Msimanga and Makhura – with no love lost between the two who previously squared off vocally in their roles as mayor and premier respectively.
He said considering the setting and context of Gauteng, top of the voter’s agenda includes issues of land rights, a highly prized commodity in the country’s smallest province geographically. Considering that the majority of people in Gauteng are economically active, matters of bread and butter will also influence the voter.
Mnguni said undoubtedly, Gauteng residents, because they have a higher concentration of taxpayers living among them, the concerns around malfeasance in the state are a deciding point. On the question of who will likely emerge victorious, taking charge of the province which houses the seat of the South African government, and other critical components of the state, Mnguni said Gauteng could be on the verge of a difficult coalition arrangement.
“Could it be that the Ramaphosa effect has been enough to get ANC voters out of their 2014 and 2016 slumber and make them return to the polls to give a convincing mandate to the ANC? Only time will tell. But for the last 10 years the ANC has been on a downward electoral trend. So the elections themselves will tell,” he said as a parting shot.
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