In South Africa -                               Former Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon on Tuesday said that next week’s general election was not yet a done deal, and that politicians had “everything to play for”.

Leon was speaking to African News Agency (ANA) concerning the latest polls while on a two-day campaign trail in KwaZulu-Natal to garner votes for the official opposition.

On Tuesday, the influential South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) released the findings of an opinion poll indicating that the African National Congress would win 51% of the national vote, with the DA and Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) taking 24% and 14% respectively. This was on a turnout of 71.9%.

But in its most recent poll, Ipsos put the ANC win at 61%, the DA at 19% and the EFF at 11%. The voter turnout was a 71% projection.

The DA’s own internal polling has placed the party’s national vote at between 24 and 26 percent and the ANC between 56 percent and 59 percent.