ANC will rise to the top again - Ramaphosa
5 August 2016
Pretoria - The ANC "will be rising to the top again", even though people thought it was on its knees, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday.
He added that it was too early to analyse the party’s decline, "as it is always premature to read somebody’s tombstone before they die".
Ramaphosa spoke to journalists at the IEC election results centre after doing a walkabout tour of the centre and eventually coming to a stop at the ANC’s table, where he sat down and gave a doorstop interview to the media on Friday afternoon.
He said, even though the party had conceded defeat in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, it remained hopeful that "we will emerge as the leading party in those metros (Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni, Etekwini and Tshwane), based on the number of people one sees on the screen who have voted for the ANC".