Colin Coleman, head of sub-Saharan Africa at Goldman Sachs Group Inc, is hoping for a big win for the ANC.
“We need to get out of this election a strong mandate for structural reforms,” Coleman said in an interview on Bloomberg Television on Wednesday. Support of 60 percent would give Ramaphosa the “political space to implement his modernisation agenda, including trying to effectively get the state-owned enterprises and a raft of economic reforms firmly in place.”
With South Africans scheduled to vote on May 8, opinion polls are suggesting the ruling ANC will win enough votes to remain in power. The margin of victory, however, is key to determining if Ramaphosa is able to deliver on pledges to revive flagging economic growth, bring rampant corruption under control and address a 27 percent unemployment rate.
Estimates of support for the ANC range from 51 percent to 61 percent, with the opposition Democratic Alliance garnering between 19 percent and 24 percent, according to surveys by polling firms and research institutes. Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters, currently the third-largest party, is seeing support of 11 percent to 14 percent, the polls show.
Were the ANC to reach the 60 percent-mark, “then the market will be very bullish,” Coleman said. Anything below that level would limit Ramaphosa’s ability to make the changes he wants, he said.
Maybe in the short term but long term....not so much
It would, but at what cost of having the ANC in power? The track record of their unprecedented reign speaks a different tale.
It's true. The international opinion formers that define what we pay for the necessary debt for infrastructure and development know a vote for CyrilRamaphosa and the MYANC is a vote for the future.
No,a Coalition should do the trick,Same as in Johannesburg.
Unfortunately for Goldman Sachs and Colin Coleman, we will vote for EFF...
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