While politics is more fluid than it has been for 30 years, the election risk is not as high as some might have thought a month or two ago, writes Carol Paton.
How worried should investors be about the election?
After 30 years of predictable outcomes, we have yet to have to contend with significant electoral change. Even now, the shift is not a large one. The ANC will still be comfortably the largest party, and no opposition party or opposition coalition, such as the Multi-party Charter, could win power.