South African president Cyril Ramaphosa said the victory was “certain” for his ruling ANC party as Wednesday’s general elections loom.
Ramaphosa was addressing a crowd of some 50 000 gathered at Johansberg Elis Park Stadium on Sunday closing the African National Congress’s Elections Campaign
This despite corruption, high unemployment and widening inequalities marring its 25 years in power.
“We’ve met people without jobs, decent houses, proper education.
“Today we say to the people of South Africa we have heard you,” he said. “Yes, we have made mistakes but it is only those who are doing nothing who don’t make mistakes.”
“We’ve also met people without jobs, decent houses, proper education,” he told a crowd of some 50,000 gathered at Johannesburg’s Ellis Park stadium on Sunday, closing the African National Congress’s election campaign.
Between 2011 and 2015, three million South Africans have fallen into poverty, according to the World Bank.
The unemployment rate currently stands at 27 percent and the ANC has been dogged by corruption scandals during the tenure of Jacob Zuma, Ramaphosa’s predecessor.
But despite all the party’s shortcomings, Ramaphosa said he was certain the ANC — in power since the end of apartheid in 1994 — would go on to win the elections.