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International Business Times
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Umberto BACCHI and Gersende RAMBOURG

S.Africa's ANC To Start Coalition Talks After Bruising Vote

President Ramaphosa (L) needs to negotiate with rivals like the DA's John Steenhuisen (C) and the EEF's Julius Malema (Credit: AFP)

South Africa's ruling ANC said Sunday that it would enter talks with other parties to form a new government, after losing its three-decade-old absolute majority in a watershed election.

With 99.91 percent of the votes from Wednesday's election counted, President Cyril Ramaphosa's African National Congress had only 40.2 percent, a catastrophic slump from the 57.5 percent it won in 2019.

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