Broadcast excerpt·SAT, 05 SEPT 2026 · 00:33:52–00:36:06 SAST
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That's such a good point. What about other parties like MK or EFF or IFP? So the DEA is fascinating in the sense that it has 26% support from women and from men. So it's essentially at a gender parity. But MK and the IFP have significantly more male support than women support. And in a way, that does sociologically make sense. If you consider that the Freedom Front Plus also follows that pattern,
you do get something of the more traditionalist, small C conservative society where men favor a party of sort of a traditionalist orientation. The ESF has a slight advantage in terms of a slight disproportionate note of having one point more men than women support it, but it's like the DA close to gender parity. So all the major parties, the ANC really is the only one that
For this consistent double-digit lead amongst female voters. The rest are parity or with a male advantage in their makeup. Very fascinating that you're doing this study at all. There's a question on the WhatsApp line saying, why is the IRR looking at a gender issue? But it does tell us an awful lot about voting patterns in South Africa. Yes, and a lot about our assumptions that we too often think that we know the South Africa.
African electorate by a specific metric, racial, history, political alliance. But we thought this is Women's Month. We are in an election year. We've got these years of data. Can't we see if it tells us something about an issue that has, to our mind, been underappreciated, underexplored? And I think the results certainly indicate that. Herman, thank you so much. Herman Petorius is the IRR head of strategic communications, a really interesting report.
There telling us about women's voting patterns. And the key takeaway there is that women are keeping the ANC in power. If only men were to vote, there would be parity between the ANC and the DA. 7:02, the Midday Report, Monday to Friday. 12 to 1 p.m. Big announcement from the IFP that its Itiquini mayoral candidate will be Mkuneko Klengwa. I think probably the most high-profile member.
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