By: Natasha Archary

Current President Cyril Ramaphosa is confident the African National Congress (ANC) will retain a firm majority of the votes in the 2024 National and Provincial Elections.
Ramaphosa who is hoping for a second term in office, addressed media before he cast his vote, and maintained that the ANC ran a formiddable and clean campaign covering the length and breadth of the country.
“The people of South Africa will give the ANC as they vote today a firm majority. In my mind, in my head, and in my thought processes, there isn’t even a doubt about that.
The ANC, under my leadership ran a formiddable campaign. We went through the length and breadth of the country to reach out to our people and to also make those who were doubtful about voting to be encourage to vote.
We were rather pleased that we saw more and more young people registering to vote, and we kept on urging the people of our country that we want to run a clean campaign which we did, and we are determined to ensure that democracy is the winner in this whole election.
In the end, it is a democratic process in our country and the ANC will reap the dividend of that by emerging as the winning party.”
President Cyril Ramaphosa remains confident that the ANC will retain majority
This is a great day for democracy in South Africa. Today we vote for the stability and the extension of our democracy.
— Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 (@CyrilRamaphosa) May 29, 2024
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As they vote today, the people of South Africa will give the African National Congress a firm majority. Under my leadership the ANC ran a formidable and clean campaign with our volunteers covering the length and breadth of our country. The democratic process is going to emerge… pic.twitter.com/tzkumDfvL6
— Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 (@CyrilRamaphosa) May 29, 2024
Ramaphosa was subsequently elected unopposed to his first full term as president by the National Assembly on 22 May 2019.
As Ramaphosa had previously been elected as president to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of his predecessor, he is constitutionally eligible to serve two full terms.
Also read: Opposition parties cast their vote across the country



