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00:00 We're referring to it as a leaderboard. We've got the ANC on top, the governing ANC. The
00:06 Democratic Alliance, the official opposition, is at number two. They're the only party to
00:12 have wrested a province away from the ANC in our democracy so far. And then there is
00:20 at number three the MK party. I lied, number three is the EFF, and then the MK party.
00:28 Now, interesting to me is that the EFF and the MK party both have the kind of stem from the ANC,
00:35 in a sense, because the Economic Freedom Fighters is led by Julius Malema, who was a youth league
00:44 leader for the ANC, and then started the EFF in 2012, if memory serves, 2012, 2013. And then,
00:53 of course, we now have the MK, the upstart MK party, seven, eight months old, and with Jacob
01:00 Zuma kind of banging the drum for them. So maybe pointing to the fact that the ANC's
01:07 problems largely come from the ANC, if you will, in a sense. And then we've got the
01:13 Patriotic Alliance, which has been making waves and is taking some votes away from the Democratic
01:20 Alliance. And the Patriotic Alliance campaigning on getting rid of illegal foreigners in the
01:26 country, saying things like they take away jobs, and we will put them on buses and get them all
01:33 out of the country. The Patriotic Alliance founder is one of the founding members, also campaigning
01:41 against crime, and he being a former gang member and having been jailed himself, says, look, I was
01:49 a criminal. I know how criminals think, and I'm the one to help you get rid of crime and the criminal