Will disgruntled people still vote ANC?

THE Gupta-owned television news station, ANN7, prides itself on political research and surveys, claiming it was the only agency to predict near-conclusive results in the last elections. In view of the coming municipal elections, it puts the DA as claiming substantial grounds in the face of service delivery dissatisfaction in areas like Tshwane. Rumours abound that the ANC could lose the premiership of Gauteng.

But that’s untrue, says ANC spin doctor Zizi Kodwa, on national television. He seems as pleased as corn on cob when he says previously regions were on fire throughout the campaign, but when voting day came, they voted ANC.

Yet indications still remain pregnant with significance of a loosening of the ANC’s asphyxiating stranglehold in some municipalities, and this must have them worried.

Communities have been vulnerable to swallowing the idolised prescriptions given to them by some parties, but the efficiency of the prescriptions has been greatly dependant on the intrinsic metabolism of the patient (voter). Broad spectrum antibiotics may work in the field of medicines but they will not work with ailing municipalities.

With these elections, it is not unusual to see the dawn of several fringe parties.

With the disqualification of the National Freedom Party, there is also an anticipated shift of allegiance. One only hopes we will not suffer “the seagulls follow the trawler” syndrome, whereby despite the corruption and inadequacies of the current government, the denizens will still vote for the ruling party. Who came blame me for thinking of Zimbabwe?

KEVIN GOVENDER

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