The IRR has warned of violence in municipalities where the ANC has suffered devastating losses.
IRR analysts point out that the conduct of politics within the ANC is often violent in its pursuit of access to the state in order to extract wealth from taxpayers. By some estimates scores of political leaders have been assassinated in recent years, while ANC factions often foment violent protests in a struggle to settle internal party feuds.
The CSIR early estimated that based on current counts the ANC was to shed a great deal of support, with its national tally coming in below 50%.
The IRR notes that the implications are that many ANC councillors and the factions they represent will lose their meal-tickets from the state. The result could easily be flare-ups of violence, as those factions grapple with the implications of losing out.
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