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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>With half the votes counted, Jacob Zuma\u2019s MK Party (MKP) might be far from its target of a two-thirds majority, but it is slowly taking over the EFF\u2019s spot with the third highest number of votes.<\/p>\n

Early on Friday morning the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) had counted and audited 51.92% of the votes and the ANC was leading with 42.34%.<\/p>\n

The DA trailed behind at 23.39% and the MKP at 10.77%, taking the EFF\u2019s third spot.<\/p>\n

The EFF accounted for 9.62% of votes, and the difference between it and the MKP was 82,798 votes.<\/p>\n

The MKP\u2019s boost in the national results is coming from KwaZulu-Natal, where it leads with 45.34% after 36.06% of votes counted in the province.<\/p>\n

The election results could change on Friday as the IEC started to record more votes from eight of the country\u2019s metros with larger number of voters. IEC general manager Granville Abrahams said the commission would capture more votes on Friday from the metros.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe metros constitute 55% of voters. We are sitting a voter turnout of 58.9% with the biggest stations [metros] to come,\u201d Abrahams said.<\/p>\n

He said there were about 7,000 voting stations results yet to be accounted for in the national results tally.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have started with the counting of metros in terms of the results seen on the board [on Thursday] but not all of them. We are getting to that part today where we see more numbers from the metros.”<\/p>\n

Zuma had previously indicated he would like to form a coalition with the EFF.<\/p>\n

Wishing the red berets’ leader Julius Malema a happy birthday last month, Zuma said: \u201cYou are now 43. That is a very good age in the circumstances in which we are. I want to wish you a happy birthday and wish you and all of us to change the country needs this year whether they like it or not. We must win with a two-thirds majority.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he believed his new party and the red berets could secure a majority of votes in the national and provincial elections held on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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