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Question

Voting (SA)

Answer 1

The ANC is the most popular political party within South Africa, following with the DA as the second most popular political party. The winner of the 2019 election was the ANC which had 230 seats. However, the second place political party was the DA which had 84 seats.

Answer 2

In the 2014 election, the African National Congress had won 249 seats, whereas in 2019 they had won 230 seats. This meant that the party had lost 19 seats.

Answer 3

In 2016, the largest student protests since the end of apartheid eventually led to the government scrapping university tuition fees for those from families with a combined income of less than 350,000 rand a year.

Answer 4

Four SAPS members were acquitted of the charge of killing Ntumba, an innocent bystander. Ntumba died in March 2021 after being shot with rubber bullets while leaving his doctor’s rooms.

Answer 5

In 2017, the COSATU went on a national strike in protest against state capture, where the members of the strike went on marches on important buildings, such as banks and city halls.

Answer 6

The Marikana massacre was the killing of thirty-four miners by SAPS in 2012. The massacre was the result of the decision by SAPS forcibly to disperse the striking mineworkers, who throughout the week had gathered on a public hilltop neighbouring the mine.

Answer 7

South Africa needs at least 25,000 new teachers each year, but only 6,000 teachers are trained annually.

Answer 8

In 2021, 27% of students who have attended school for 6 years cannot read. Only 37% of children starting school go on to pass the matriculation exam and just 4% earn a degree.

Answer 9

In 2019, 7.5m people are living with HIV within South Africa.

Answer 10

In 2012, a study using a nationally representative dataset showed that a white South African has a significantly higher likelihood of being a medical scheme member and that blacks are disproportionately less represented as scheme members.

Answer 11

In 2022, it was reported on average that 23 people were killed with guns in South Africa each day, that is up from 18 people six years ago (2016).

Answer 12

Black South Africans take up a huge population in prison at 50% compared to other racial groups. It was also found that between 2022 and 2023, 3934 black women were murdered.

Answer 13

When we look at the average of earning across all sectors, it can be seen that men earn on average £652 for full time work while women earn on average £558.

Answer 14

The glass ceiling is a reality as women are massively underrepresented in these roles with only 38% of board members being women.

Answer 15

When 90% of single parents are women, it is not surprising that so many women might be out of work. This goes some way to explain why only 72% of women are in work in contrast to 79% of men.

Answer 16

According to Health Scotland, around 80% of domestic abuse incidents reported had a female victim and male perpetrator.

Answer 17

According to JRF, 20% of single female pensioners are in poverty which is 4% higher than single male pensioners.

Answer 18

This has resulted in around 38% of women being in part time work in contrast to only 13% of men.

Answer 19

The reality is that since the production of the UC, poverty in the UK remains high and the use of food banks has increased across the UK by 123%.

Answer 20

The employment rates were over 75% before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Answer 21

The JRF has highlighted that the UK poverty is around 22% which has changed little in the last 15 years. Considering that MLW/NLW policies have been around for over 20 years many would argue that they really are not effective enough.

Answer 22

The Living Wage Foundation found that in 2021, those who had benefited from the NLW were now £2,700 better off a year than they would have been if they had stayed on the NMW.

Answer 23

It is estimated that in order for the Scottish Government to achieve its target of less than 10% by 2030/31 then the SCP will need to double to £40 by 2025/26 a week (from its current figure of £20 a week in April 2022).

Answer 24

SNP announced that in 2022 “they were going to increase the SCP by 150% from £10 per week per eligible child to £25 and extended it to under 16s.” This affected the 69% of children living in poverty in Scotland that are in a households where someone works.

Answer 25

The alcohol related death rate is almost x2 higher in Scotland compared than in England.

Answer 26

The areas with the highest alcohol deaths are Inverclyde and Glasgow which are both areas with high deprivation.

Answer 27

There are almost 10,000 smoking related deaths in Scotland each year.

Answer 28

By 2021, 32% of adults living in deprived areas of Scotland smoke.

Answer 29

70% of suicide rates in the UK are male.

Answer 30

Health Scotland found that in the 5 years up to 2020 people in the most deprived parts of Scotland were more likely to take their own lives.

Answer 31

Under AMS smaller parties such as the Green party are more likely to win regionals MSPs as their votes are grouped together in larger regions, increasing the representation of different viewpoints in parliament.

Answer 32

In 2017, the Scottish Green party won 19 seats, five more than in 2012 due to the STV system, allowing smaller parties to gain a larger percentage of support.

Answer 33

In the 2019 election, the Conservatives gained 365 seats with 42% of the vote and Labour got 302 seats with 32% of the vote.

Answer 34

In 2019, the Green party had only one MP in the House of Commons despite gaining 865,707 votes.

Answer 35

The MP for Stirling is Alyn Smith from SNP, who was elected with around 26,000 votes which accounted for 51.1% of the votes.

Answer 36

In the Scottish election, using an AMS system, the Green Party had won 7 seats in parliament - all through regional vote. In comparison, in the 2019 election, which uses the FPTP system, the Greens only gained 1 seat in parliament.

Answer 37

In 2022, the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey showed that only 14% of people thought the UK Government should have the most influence while it also showed that a majority of people in Scotland support independence over any other kind of governance.

Answer 38

Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Scottish Party Leader Douglas Ross have argued that it was because of the financial power of being in the UK that helped protect jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic with the government able to borrow billions cheaply for the furlough and vaccination schemes.

Answer 39

A poll which came out after the referendum showed that 33% of Scottish adults believed it was a good idea to have more power over tax and welfare but not defence and foreign affairs.

Answer 40

In 2023, the UK Government vetoed the Gender Recognition Bill that Scotland had spent several years creating. The Bill attempted to improve young people's freedom of choice and therefore mental health but despite full backing from the Scottish Government, the UK Government did not agree and it was overturned.

Answer 41

Johnson's UK Government won only 25% of the vote and 6/59 Scottish seats in 2019 but have promied to prioritise protecting the Scottish fishing industry in the ongoing UK-EU trade negotations.

Answer 42

None of the Conservative or Coalition UK Governments elected in 2010, 2015, 2017 or 2019 had the support of the majority in Scotland.

Answer 43

There have been six peaceful elections based on PR. For example, over 35 political parties participated in the 2019 elections with 13 parties sitting in the National Assembly.

Answer 44

The ANC's vote peaked in 2004 and has begun to decrease since then. Their lowest vote share was in 2019 but was still over the 50% needed. The main opposition, the DA, has seen their vote rise in every election except 2019 but they're still the main challengers.

Answer 45

Regionally, in the 2016 local elections, the ANC lost significant seats and the opposition had their best results ever. The ANC were reduced to 50% of the vote whilst the DA gained 26%.

Answer 46

The ANC are in power in 8 out of the 9 provinces in South Africa. This means that the ANC has power over the majority of South Africa at a local level.

Answer 47

The Economic Freedom Fighters who are supported largely by young males wanting a better future. They recently gained 6% of the vote being the third largest political party.

Answer 48

There is the issue that the two parties support the ANC and provide absolutely no opposition to them - the communists (SACP) and the trade unions (COSATU).

Answer 49

In 2002, only 1% of the poorest in South Africa attended school. In 2012, this rose to 55% and in 2018 this was 68%.

Answer 50

Blacks will be allocated a place above Whites with the same grades. This means that black South Africans now make up 70% of higher education spaces.

Answer 51

94% of people with HIV knew their status, of which 79% were on treatment for HIV.

Answer 52

The National Primary School Nutrition Project (Mandela Sandwich) has improved nutrition and health standards (as well as educational attainment).

Answer 53

In 2023, nearly 3/4 of privately-owned land is still in the hands of whites, who make up less than a tenth of the population of 58 million, while only 4% is owned by blacks who are nearly 80%, government data shows.

Answer 54

About 50,000 houses were built in South Africa in 1992. This figure could reasonably be increased to over 300,000 units each year by the end of the RDP's five-year programme.