Motsepe Leads ANC Leadership Race on Favourability

Polling Correspondent

May 13, 2026

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SRF polling finds Patrice Motsepe has the strongest favourability among three possible ANC leadership contenders, while Mbalula and Mashatile record higher negative ratings.
Motsepe Leads ANC Leadership Race on Favourability

With President Cyril Ramaphosa facing the greatest-ever challenge to his Presidency polling from SRF found that Patrice Motsepe was the most popular potential candidate to take over from him. Motsepe’s favourability score is equivalent to the joint favourability scores of his rivals and his negative score is low. Should his camp put a serious campaign behind those numbers, no other ANC candidate could possibly hope to catch him.

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