they have these, the former south african president, jacob zuba. he was barred from this election. but i understand he has been playing a significant role in the results that we're seeing right behind you. tell me about that. yes, absolutely. i think the m k party, which was recently founded by a former president, jake assume a has been a major wildcard and disruptor in this election part of the reason. at 1st, the navy contextualize why he was was bod. the former president was convicted and the south african constitution doesn't allow him any one with the conviction of more than 12 months to stand for public office at a national level. that being said, people were still seem to be voting based on some support for the, for the president, jacob, too much, especially in the positive natal province where he originates from and, and where he has quite a strong political following that the party has gotten over 1200000 votes, and more than 800000 of those 1200000 votes have actually come from because they do natal province. so it's definitely a huge disruptor. and and, and then this hav

of the well, jacob zuba has managed to take away his parties mad to take away some is away from the amc. areas that what to destiny a n c stronghold. this is the big blow to the amc. this province is very important to choose to be in terms of size and influence. let me ask people why there was so much support for do mind this problem to say, 1st of all, this is all the problems. they not surprise you did. so all of a sickening, they say that, remember when he was president of south africa a few years ago, they say when it came to this province, he delivered, he created jobs, he improved infrastructure. he proved health care to be helping with his party in charge of use of this province. if that is the case, they hope that he will continue to develop k that at least spoke to a young fellow applicant about 31 years old. she says she hasn't was in need of 10 years and she's hoping that someone would deliver on those promises. but basically the statement here is that they feel linked out and find the governing amc. and that's why it seems a lot of people tags to the new in tape august to ge

jacob zoom or has been bought from contesting next week's elections. but suppose it is m k policy say that doesn't change anything. that confident zuba will still leave the party to victory. latasha reports now from dublin. jacob's image support to say just because the court blocked him from running for parliament to next week's elections. it doesn't make him any less of a threats to say that because governing african national congress, we as a south africa you, if you want change, we want into a month. i like you of south africa. we find the industries. they've got nothing to do that to week from and those things jacob zoom is the face of. i'm going to is caesar, which means the spirit of the nation co m. k. i just widely known and this is his home problem. and let's say, oh my president jacob fema may take some votes away from the v and the fox is supposed to be in this problem. natasha. lima is still very popular. decide that against are up against and zoom. it was forced to quit as president in 2018. he didn't start out with the amc pa to and his new campaign for m k which was formed in december, asia new um, so now um he still h