Results of South Africa's 2014 election for the national parliament and state assemblies on 7 May are announced. ANC (African National congress) emerged once again as the outright winner with 62.1% vote though much less than its previous scores. DA, the Democratic Alliance scoring 22.2% came second and EFF and the Economic Freedom Fighters a new kid on the block third. 



Jacob Zuma, the presidential candidate of the ANC, dedicated the party's victory to Madiba (Nelson Mandela). The party holds position in the hearts and minds of the majority South Africans for making them free after ending apartheid and improving their lives in the past twenty years is the reason they support it, the president sited, in his post-victory address to the nation.

However, the party has been facing serious criticism from South Africans and the oppositions in particular for its alleged involvement in corruption, during the past years of its governance, the latest of them being a 28 billion security revamp on president's Zuma's Kwazulu Natal residence, Nkandla, famed Nkandlagate  at the taxpayers' expense.

Democratic Alliance recorded a 33,7 % increase in victory over 2009, which its leader Helen Zille, claims is the victory of all South Africans.  A White led party previously, in the recent years, it made serious inroads into all South African race groups and it represents the aspirations of an emerging middle class. 

People of Indian Origin in South Africa

Among  the 51.1 million South African population, they are only a meager 1,3 million, but a substantial portion of them forms part of the nation's emerging middle class. Historically they were in good rapport with the ruling ANC or the Minority Front an ethnic party. But due to various developments in the recent times, they made a considerable shift  toward the DA this time.

Juluis Malema, the leader of the EFF, previously an ANC member, represents the aspirations of a section of the South Africa's  youth grappling with difficulties in employment, education and ownership of land.  


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