{"id":967816,"date":"2024-06-02T07:06:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T07:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967816"},"modified":"2024-06-02T07:06:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T07:06:59","slug":"supporters-voted-for-zuma-believing-he-still-represents-anc-mtolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/supporters-voted-for-zuma-believing-he-still-represents-anc-mtolo\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporters voted for Zuma believing he still represents ANC: Mtolo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The African National Congress (ANC) secretary in KwaZulu-Natal, Bheki Mtolo, says many ANC supporters voted for its former President Jacob Zuma, believing he still represents the ANC.<\/p>\n<p>Mtolo has been commenting on the ANC\u2019s declining support in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/945639-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Zuma led the MK party\u2019s election campaign.\u00a0However, he also maintains that he remains a member of the ANC.<\/p>\n<p>Mtolo says the ANC underestimated Zuma\u2019s impact on these elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought once we explained he was gone to the ANC, people would understand that he\u2019s not part of us. I got there in eThekwini, and in various VDs, people were wearing ANC regalia, but when they entered the ballot box, they said we wanted Zuma. You think they don\u2019t know he\u2019s out of the ANC because he has been misleading them by saying that I\u2019m still with the ANC and that I\u2019ll die with the ANC. Then those people thought they voted for the ANC. We have not yet explained thoroughly to them that he\u2019s no longer with us; he\u2019s outside of ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>2024 Elections | Analysis of election results objections:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QNjiA461FJY?si=7w3WSnaZ6_oC7Zef\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/anc-kzn-admits-underestimating-impact-of-mk-party\/?hilite=MK+Party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party<\/a>\u00a0says it wants a commission inquiry established that will probe alleged discrepancies that transpired in the capturing of election results.<\/p>\n<p>The party alleges that elections have been rigged.<\/p>\n<p>MK Party spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela was speaking to the media at the National Results Centre in Midrand on Saturday evening<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to get to the bottom of exactly what transpired and we are going to push for that. It stops with the MK. It stops with President Zuma,\u201d he said in an impromptu press briefing that was attended by some members of the party\u2019s leadership, including former President Jacob Zuma.<\/p>\n<p>2024 Elections | Zuma addresses media, calls for a commission of inquiry into \u2018election rigging\u2019:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1jXqa76ArAs?si=cO9uyyrnv-qvLqLT\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time:\u00a02\u00a0minutes The African National Congress (ANC) secretary in KwaZulu-Natal, Bheki Mtolo, says many ANC supporters voted for its former President Jacob Zuma, believing he still represents the ANC. Mtolo has been commenting on the ANC\u2019s declining support in the\u00a0general elections. Zuma led the MK party\u2019s election campaign.\u00a0However, he also maintains that he remains a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":967817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1591,1909,246,2422,1098,708,2981],"class_list":["post-967816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-general-elections","tag-african-national-congress","tag-anc","tag-bheki-mtolo","tag-jacob-zuma","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-nk-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}