Cyril Ramaphosa woos workers at May Day rally
President urges ANC supporters at a Cosatu rally in KwaZulu-Natal to go out in their numbers to vote
With exactly a week to go to the May 8 elections, President Cyril Ramaphosa took advantage of the the May Day star rally organised by Cosatu in KwaZulu-Natal to woo voters. Ramaphosa described next week’s elections as “critical” and urged the governing party’s supporters to go out in their numbers and vote. A recent poll by the the SA Institute for Race Relations (IRR) showed that the ANC could be in trouble, with its majority dropping to 49.5%. However, when modeled on a 71% turnout of voters on May 8, a scenario considered plausible as not everyone will vote, the ANC reaches 51%. The IRR’s poll varied enormously from that conducted by market research agency Ipsos, which showed that the ANC stood at 56.9%. The Ipsos poll also found that the governing party could get 61% if there is a 71% turnout. Ramaphosa told workers that the ANC’s alliance, which Cosatu was part of, was going to present a governing alliance which was prepared to take SA forward and grow the country. He sa...
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