MBABANE:”Lack of service delivery, low voter turnout and the emergence of former President Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe(MK) contributed to the ANC losing it’s majority nationally”, Fikile Mbalula, the Secretary General of the African National Congress(ANC) told journalists when addressing the media on Sunday, for the first since the announcement of the election results.
The Mail&Guardian reported that, the party lost control of Gauteng and was decimated in KwaZulu-Natal where Zuma’s party took 45% of the vote, while it also fell below 50% in the Northern Cape, and lost 17 percentage points of its support nationally.
Mbalula said,the ANC accepted its losses and thanked the six million people who voted for it and supported its efforts to rid the ANC of corrupt elements as part of the party’s renewal process.
“While there are several factors that have contributed to the decline in support, the results send a clear message to the ANC.We wish to assure the people of South Africa that we have heard them,” said the ANC Secretary General as quoted by the Mail&Guardian.
ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula.