ANC dismisses claims it’s under threat as it prepares for toughest elections since 1994
Although the party is confident it will retain the majority, it said it’s leaving nothing to chance in the final sweep.
ANC supporter at the governing party’s final election rally at Soweto’s FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on 25 May 2024. Picture: X/MYANC
JOHANNESBURG - The African National Congress (ANC) has dismissed claims that it is threatened as the governing party prepares for its toughest elections since 1994.
With a few days to go to the general elections, the ANC is holding its Siyanqoba rally at the FNB Stadium in Soweto on Saturday.
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Although the party is confident it will retain the majority, it said it’s leaving nothing to chance in the final sweep.
Considering this a temperature check for the ANC, the party will tell you it is literally and figuratively hot.
The ANC said it has tried to gauge supporters' mood in the build-up to next week’s polls and said Saturday’s event will be no different.
The ANC has to defend its honour after several opinion polls have suggested that the party will not get an outright majority when the country votes on 29 May.
But the ANC has dismissed this as hocus-pocus.
ANC spokesperson, Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri, said the turnout on Saturday will be a show of force.
“We are the only organisation that enjoys a mass base like we do. We exist in every branch, and I say this with the utmost modesty. We do look at opinion pieces, but we know where our support base is.”
Several national executive committee (NEC) leaders have also told Eyewitness News that an ANC victory is as certain as the sun rising in the east and setting in the west.