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With limited resources and with preparations hampered by COVID-19 restrictions, ANC volunteers carried out an intensive campaign across the length and breadth of the nation.

On behalf of the ANC leadership, we wish to thank all the ANC candidates, staff, campaign workers and volunteers for the extraordinary effort that they put into this hard-fought election campaign. #ANCSiyabonga

It is a credit to the IEC, state institutions like the SAPS and all political parties that the election went ahead and that it was so successful.

The IEC did this under the difficult conditions created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic cast doubt on the viability of the elections and severely affected the election timetable and planning.

We wish to commend the Independent Electoral Commission for mounting a massive logistical operation and ensuring a successful election.

As the African National Congress, we wish to congratulate and thank all South Africans who voted on Monday and on the special voting days.   Every single vote counts, and every single vote contributes to determining the path our country will follow.

It gives meaning to the declaration in the Freedom Charter that “no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of all the people”.

Once again these elections were held in conditions of peace and stability, where every citizen was able to cast their votes freely and without fear. The holding of regular free & fair elections is one of the great strengths of our constitutional democracy.

#ANCSiyabonga | Thread “ Fellow South Africans, Comrades and Friends,   A week ago, millions of South Africans went to the polls to cast their votes in the sixth local government elections since the advent of democracy.”~ @CyrilRamaphosa