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The counting of votes is soon to be completed and the ANC sits at 40.25% nationally and 34.55% in Gauteng, having failed to secure over 50% in the Northern Cape and with KwaZulu-Natal lost to the MK Party. This is a call to action.
The people of South Africa have rejected the ANC; we garnered 40% of the 58.6% of registered voters who turned out to vote, while 41.4% chose to stay at home and not participate in the seventh democratic national and provincial elections.
This means the number of votes we received is not even a quarter of the total number