{"id":967894,"date":"2024-06-03T10:30:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T10:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967894"},"modified":"2024-06-03T10:30:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T10:30:48","slug":"anc-heard-south-africans-frustrations-mbalula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/anc-heard-south-africans-frustrations-mbalula\/","title":{"rendered":"ANC heard South Africans\u2019 frustrations: Mbalula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula says the party has heard South Africans\u2019 frustrations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/iec-pronounces-elections-free-and-fair-releases-final-results\/?hilite=election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Electoral Commission\u2019s officially declared election results <\/a>show that ANC achieved just over 40% of the votes, followed by the Democratic Alliance (DA) with almost 22%, the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK) secured over 14% and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) over 9%.<\/p>\n<p>Voter turnout was 58.61%.<\/p>\n<p>Over 16-million South Africans voted in the 2024 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Mbalula has conceded that the frustrations have led to the ANC\u2019s failure to get majority votes in last week\u2019s general elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the ANC has won the most votes in this elections, the results show a significant decline in the ANC support from previous elections. While there are several factors contributed to the decline, the request sent a clear message to the ANC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results also show concerns about shortcomings and delivery. We enter govt. with a clear mandate to improve services in all communities throughout the country,\u201d adds Mbalula.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below is the full address by the ANC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uNsBsMScKeY?si=zOQP0QI_y6cay9sC\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute The African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula says the party has heard South Africans\u2019 frustrations. The Electoral Commission\u2019s officially declared election results show that ANC achieved just over 40% of the votes, followed by the Democratic Alliance (DA) with almost 22%, the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK) secured over 14% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":967895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1909,246,234,339,2311,617,1709,974,1991],"class_list":["post-967894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-african-national-congress","tag-anc","tag-da","tag-democratic-alliance","tag-economic-freedom-fighters","tag-eff","tag-fikile-mbalula","tag-mk-party","tag-umkhonto-wesizwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967894","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}