SHOOT: Here's a bold prediction. The president after Zuma will be Zille, and the next election made be in the next year or two. Do not underestimate the power of disenchantment created by one of the worst recession's in history - and the impact of having no jobs and no money can have after you have voted for a leader who not only does not deliver but is clueless as to how to deliver.
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How I feel about the election results...Watch me casting my vote.
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The ANC swept South Africa's first post-apartheid election in 1994 and the two following that. In 2004, it took 69.69 percent of the parliamentary vote.
If the ANC fails to at least match that this year, it will be seen as a message from voters that they want some limits on the party. A two-thirds majority allows the ANC to enact major budgetary plans or legislation unchallenged, or to change the constitution.
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille, who has won praise for her stint as mayor of Cape Town, said ahead of the elections that her main goals were to stop the ANC's two thirds majority and to win the Western Cape.
"The Western Cape will set an example for the whole country, for democracy in South Africa," she told them in an impromptu thank you speech in the airport parking lot.
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