Unisa debate to ask: 'Will voters take ANC out of power in 2019?'

19 September 2016 - 12:30 By TMG Digital
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The University of South Africa (Unisa) has secured a “powerful line-up of political analysts and thinkers” for a debate which will “reflect on ANC performance in recent polls and prospects for 2019”.

Radio and television presenter Iman Rappetti will facilitate Thursday’s deliberations.

“The African National Congress (ANC) has been winning elections in most provinces since 1994‚ but their performance started dropping after 2009‚” a university statement said.

“Many people believe that the results of the recent local government elections showed that the voters are no longer happy with the ANC‚ and it has lost power to the opposition parties that have now come together to oust it out of power.”

Having lost “key municipalities like the City of Tshwane‚ City of Johannesburg and Nelson Mandela Bay”‚ the debate will question whether voters “might finally take the ANC out of power in 2019?”

It will also debate the effectiveness of the “opposition parties…who have teamed up to ensure that the ANC is out of power” come the national polls in three years' time.

This debate will feature: Professor Kealeboga Maphunye (WIPHOLD-Brigalia Bam Chair on Electoral Democracy in Africa)‚ Mzwanele Jimmy Manyi (Decolonisation Foundation)‚ Professor Tinyiko Maluleke (University of Pretoria)‚ Mr Ebrahim Fakir (Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa) and Mr Dumisani Hlophe (University of South Africa).

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