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The ANC will have the support of 78,2% of the voters in Mpumalanga in next year’s provincial election, according to the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).

The ANC will have the support of 84,2% of the voters in the Eastern Cape province in next year’s provincial election, according to the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).

Cape Town – The NNP will have the support of 40% of the voters in the Western Cape province in next year’s provincial election, according to the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).

The HSRC's earnings from research contracts and grants have increased ten-fold over the last three financial years until March 2003.

In the 2002/03 financial year, the HSRC's ten research programmes ran some 200 research projects, 50% more than in the previous financial year.

Race still plays a major role in voter decisions, women dominate the support for some parties, the balance of party allegiance changes as voters get older, and support for opposition parties is lowest in South Africa’s rural areas.

An extensive nation-wide survey conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), called the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS), has predicted that the ANC will secure just over a two-thirds majority in next year’s parliamentary election.

A new study on the healthcare expenditure of six Southern African countries has found that for the exception of South Africa and Zimbabwe, promises of government expenditure ono healthcare are not being met.