The reason to vote is not what you think

I've run the averages. And this is the picture nationally. Of course, this is not a national election, it's a local election. But hey, we get to see what the accumulation of that local election creates nationally. And these are the numbers that I've arrived at. So the ANC nationally in this election, look, give or take 2% here or there, give me some leeway, but this is the ballpark. ANC is sitting at the low 30s. Can you imagine that?

Our votes don't matter, and yet the South African electorate has taken the ANC from 62% of the vote in 2014, potentially halving to nearly 30, 31. That is going to be a profound story of this election, that the ANC has gone from a party of nearly two-thirds of the vote to a party of 30%, or a party of the 30s.

The applause matters. We've got the DA sitting at 25%, and that's really interesting because in the big cities, the DA is polling very well. But South Africa is not just its big cities. South Africa is all of the country. And so the DA does very well in the cities, but not very well outside the cities. So actually, its overall vote for having been around for such

Long time is not that impressive. 25%. It's still in the 20s and it has been there for a very long time. So that 20%, 25% ceiling is still affecting the DA. However, when you zoom into the cities, they are going to be doing very well. And you can see some of the other parties. Well, dare I mention MK in KZN? MK is still looking fairly strong. It was at 14% in the last election.

13% nationally now. Why is that? Because KZN and Gauteng are such a big part of the overall election. When MK does well in KZN and in Gauteng, that has reverberations across the country. EFF at 10, ActionSA, and IFP in and around the 3-4% mark. Right. So these are some of the