President Cyril Ramaphosa and First Lady Tshepo Motsepe cast their votes at Hitekani Primary School in Soweto on Wednesday. (Amanda Khoza/News24)
- ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa voted at Hitekani Primary School. Chiawelo, Soweto.
- He joins millions of South Africans who are expected to exercise their democratic right to vote in the country's seventh general election.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa cast his vote at Hitekani Primary School in Chiawelo, Soweto district, on Wednesday morning.
Shortly afterwards he said: “The South African people are going to give the ANC a solid majority in the vote today. So there's no doubt about that in my heart, in my mind and in my thought process.”
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He was accompanied by First Lady Dr Tshepo Motsepe.
President Ramaphosa said the ANC had run a strong election campaign under his leadership.
“We have travelled up and down the country to reach out to people and encourage those who may be unsure to vote. We are rather pleased to see young people registering to vote,” he added.
President Ramaphosa said the ANC was aiming for a “clean election campaign”.
“We are committed to ensuring that democracy prevails in this election. It is our democratic process that will ultimately prevail and the ANC will reap the benefits by emerging as the winning party,” he added.