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South Africa election set to end three decades of ANC dominance
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/what-happens-next-south-africa-after-anc-loses-majority-2024-05-31/South Africa election set to end three decades of ANC dominance
By Alexander Winning
June 1, 2024 4:37 AM EDT Updated 2 hours ago
JOHANNESBURG, June 1 (Reuters) - South Africa was set to end three decades of dominance by the party that freed it from apartheid on Saturday, as voters angry at joblessness, inequality and power shortages slashed the African National Congress's (ANC) share of the vote to 40%.
A dramatically weakened mandate for the legacy party of Nelson Mandela, down from the 57.5% it got in the previous 2019 parliamentary election, means the ANC must share power with a rival in order to keep it - an unprecedented prospect.
Vote tallying from Wednesday's poll was entering the final stages on Saturday morning, with results in from 98% of polling stations giving the ANC 40.15%.
The main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), had 21.71% and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), a new party led by former president Jacob Zuma, managed to grab 14.76%.
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By Alexander Winning
June 1, 2024 4:37 AM EDT Updated 2 hours ago
JOHANNESBURG, June 1 (Reuters) - South Africa was set to end three decades of dominance by the party that freed it from apartheid on Saturday, as voters angry at joblessness, inequality and power shortages slashed the African National Congress's (ANC) share of the vote to 40%.
A dramatically weakened mandate for the legacy party of Nelson Mandela, down from the 57.5% it got in the previous 2019 parliamentary election, means the ANC must share power with a rival in order to keep it - an unprecedented prospect.
Vote tallying from Wednesday's poll was entering the final stages on Saturday morning, with results in from 98% of polling stations giving the ANC 40.15%.
The main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), had 21.71% and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), a new party led by former president Jacob Zuma, managed to grab 14.76%.
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