Mantashe on early election results

ANC national chair Gwede Mantashe says the governing party has no intention of legally challenging election results as it monitors the “biggest surprise” of the MK Party leading early in the vote count in KwaZulu-Natal. With 11.14% of votes counted in the province, Jacob Zuma’s new party had an early lead with 43.5%. The ANC trailed at 21.38% and the IFP had 17.42% of the votes counted. Speaking at the IEC’s national results operation centre in Midrand on Thursday, Mantashe described MK’s lead as the governing party’s “biggest surprise”. “We appreciated that there…