South Africa’s ANC Lags Main Rival in New Voter Opinion Poll
Chief Albert Luthuli House, The African National Congress (ANC) headquarters in Johannesburg.
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Support for the African National Congress, which ruled South Africa outright for three decades after apartheid rule ended, has slipped further since it lost its parliamentary majority in last year’s elections and now lags that of its main rival for the first time, a new opinion poll showed.
Of 807 respondents canvassed by the Institute of Race Relations by phone between March 27 and April 3, some 29.7% said they backed the ANC and 30.3% the business friendly Democratic Alliance. Support for the DA among registered Black voters jumped to 18% from 5%. The poll had a margin of error of about 4%.