South Africa's president and leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party Jacob Zuma raises his glass next to ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe (L) during the party's 102nd anniversary celebration, where they also launched their election manifesto, at Mbombela stadium in Nelspruit January 11, 2014. REUTERS/Ihsaan Haffejee
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The African National Congress (ANC) is on course to win nearly a two-thirds majority in May 7 elections, a poll showed on Sunday, confounding analysts who had predicted a fall in support for South Africa's ruling party 20 years after the end of apartheid.
The poll, published by South Africa's Sunday Times newspaper, said the ANC was likely to win 65.5 percent of the vote, only a shade lower than the 65.9 percent it won at the last national elections in 2009.
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