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What South Africans really think

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Hermann Pretorius and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the latest polling from the IRR about how South Africans feel on a variety of policy questions. They show that the ANC is deeply out of touch with how South Africans actually feel.
21 May 2025 11AM English South Africa News Commentary · Politics

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