This is no surprise to anyone... Not even the other parties who were really fighting for second place. Jacob Zuma, the scandalized president of the African National Congress, will be the next president of South Africa. The ANC itself has won its two-thirds majority, and the count keeps rising. Zuma predicts the party will win 70% of the seats in Parliament. That's more than enough to be able to change the constitution. The ANC is ahead in eight of the nine provinces. It might lose the Western Cape, were Cape Town is located, and is the stronghold of the Democratic Alliance party that won about 16% of the vote. COPE, the ANC branch-off party that split over the treatment of Thabo Mbeki, won just under 8% of the vote. Now the ANC is celebrating, dancing on stages and waiting for May when the new Parliament and president take power. Then it'll be on to the real task of governing and fulfilling of campaign promises. There's a lot of work to do... The country's still staring at soaring poverty and unemployment levels, and the poor are counting on Zuma to make good on his promises.