An overwhelming win for the ANC in the elections will allow President Cyril Ramaphosa the opportunity to implement new growth reforms, but it has a one-third chance of doing so, according to a poll. An online election survey by Intellidex found that while domestic and international captains of industry predicted a win for the governing party, they believed Ramaphosa, who is facing an intensified fightback campaign by his comrades for his reform agenda, will survive until 2022 at least. The survey by the capital markets and financial services research firm indicated that there was a moderately high degree of confidence that a “mandate threshold” existed. The term related to a percentage of ANC votes that would provide Ramaphosa with a platform to institute reforms after the elections, in which the survey predicted a 57.4% win for the ANC, followed by the DA at 20.7% and the EFF at 11.4%.
“The latter two are in line with Intellidex’s views but the ANC is looking a little high ...
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