totally annihilated and remain the dominant party is because opposition is fragmented and extreme eweekhough with all the frustrations and lack of service delivery and the problems we have in terms of electricity provision at the moment and the corruption issues as you rightly point out, all of those things yes will make a dent in anc port -- support, but the only question is how much. what we saw with elections two years ago is traditional anc supporters did not move to another party to a large extent, there were some exceptions, but very little, they ask he did not come out to vote, so in that fact of course, impacted on our proportional voting system in this country, so in short to say yes, they have definitely lost support. i am sure this will be reflected in the national election unless they can seriously pull their act together in the next two years or so, but i do believe that they will stay the majority party. only question is whether it will be an outright majority over 30%. anchor: uh given the dominance that the anc has had in south african politics in the postapartheid era,