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ANC set to lose majority after watershed vote
The Morning Standard
|May 31, 2024
South Africa may see a coalition government for the first time in 30 years after apartheid
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SOUTH Africa's ruling ANC was on course to lose its 30year-old unchallenged majority on Thursday after voters queued long into the night to cast their ballots, preliminary results and projections showed.
With almost a quarter of votes tallied, the ANC was leading but with a score of 43%-well below the 57% it won in 2019followed by the liberal Democratic Alliance (DA) at 25%, according to authorities.
The leftist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) was in third place with 9% of the vote, trailed by former South African president Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) on eight. The final results are not expected to be known before the weekend.
This story is from the May 31, 2024 edition of The Morning Standard.
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