The fallout of Cyril Ramaphosa’s endorsement of the DA's governance record endures and has caused The Common Sense to revisit 2022 Social Research Foundation (SRF) data on how voters perceived party policies and governance track records.

Two of the most interesting questions the SRF asked in 2022 were about which parties break their promises and are anti-poor.

That data showed that voters thought the term “broken promises” best describes the ANC, while 39.5% of voters thought the term “anti-poor” best describes the ANC (followed by the DA and the EFF, both at 20.1%).

Frans Cronje told The Common Sense that “this kind of data should long have served as an early warning to the ANC that opinion was turning against it, but the party’s leadership has been very resistant to recognising the danger in numbers such as these.”