ANC set to Lose Western Cape

Latest South African Election Results UPDATED HERE.

“This was possibly the best result we could have had in the Western Cape”

This was said by a senior ANC official, who understandably did not want to be identified.

The Western Cape is the one province in the country where the early results show that the ANC is losing handsomely.

All the support for the Congress of the People in the province came almost exclusively from ANC voters.

Back to the drawing board

He Continued:

“If we had got closer to the DA figure, we would have being trying to put another coalition together, but now we are forced to go back to the drawing board, to go back to the grassroots, to build our organisation in the traditional way, and to heal it.”

With 600 000 votes counted on Thursday morning, from the 2.6 million-strong electorate in the province, the DA was holding 53.84%, and the ANC 27.3%.