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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Daniel Keane

ANC party on course to lose majority in South Africa's election for first time in three decades

The African National Congress (ANC) party is on course to lose its parliamentary majority in the South African election for the first time in three decades, despite receiving the highest number of votes.

With more than 99 per cent of votes counted, the ANC received just over 40 per cent in Wednesday’s election, well short of the majority it had held since Nelson Mandela’s victory in 1994.

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