Analyst says ANC's chances of returning to power in Western Cape slim
The ANC is in Cape Town this week to celebrate its 113 years in existence and to win back some of the support it lost decades ago.
ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula held a press briefing at Mandela Park in Khayelitsha, Cape Town on 6 January 2025. Picture: @MYANC/X
CAPE TOWN - Political analyst, Professor Dirk Kotze, believes the African National Congress (ANC)'s chances of ever returning to power in the Western Cape are slim to none.
The ANC is in Cape Town this week to celebrate its 113 years in existence and to win back some of the support it lost decades ago.
The ANC has not been in power in the Western Cape since losing to the Democratic Alliance (DA) in 2009.
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But Kotze said the prominence of identity politics in the province might result in a coalition government in the future.
He said this was evident in provinces like KwaZulu-Natal.
"If you look for example at the last elections, in the case of the Western Cape, the votes that the ANC lost, about 9% of them, went mainly to the Patriotic Alliance and not the DA. So that is why there is, in a sense, a fragmentation that has developed, especially in the Western Cape but in other provinces like KwaZulu-Natal also."