New Social Research Foundation polling, fielded in July 2026, has the ANC down roughly 12 points from the first quarter of this year - a fall well outside margin of error. Frans Cronje and Gabriel Makin go through what the data show and what is driving this trend.
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Frans sets out four factors behind the ANC's fall: voters increasingly judging the party through a local government lens, the Phala Phala revelations, the Madlanga Commission compounding the corruption picture, and MK and ActionSA campaigning effectively on immigration.

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