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Ballot counting was under way Thursday after South Africans queued long into the night to vote in a watershed election that could spell the end of the ANC's 30-year-old unchallenged majority.

In tonight's special edition: Vote counting is underway in South Africa as millions of people turn out for a landmark election, three decades after the end of apartheid, in a poll that could see the ruling ANC party fighting to protect its grip on power.

ANC majority in national election at risk for first time since 1990s as unemployment, corruption and power cuts erode support

Thirty years after Nelson Mandela took over as country’s first Black president, the party faces a credibility crisis.

South Africans participate in a pivotal election with global attention, shaping the nation's future amidst challenges and hopes for progress.

Cyril Ramaphosa has promised to ‘do better’ but lingering poverty and unemployment threaten his party’s three-decade grip on power

Pacing along the dark corridors of a rundown five-storey building in Johannesburg's crime-ridden township of Alexandra, Duduzile Mthembu says she has been trying to persuade young residents to vote.

South Africa's crucial national election could lead to historic power shift as ANC faces challenge to maintain majority.

Access to electricity – measured by the share of individuals who use electricity as their main energy source – has significantly improved in lower-income countries in recent decades. Thanks to large-scale rural electrification and infrastructure development programmes, 90% of the population in these countries had access by 2021, up from…

As South Africans vote in the country's general election this Wednesday, we focus on the state of the economy after three decades under the rule of the African National Congress. In this edition, we see how the country's crumbling energy infrastructure has hampered economic activity and explore the reasons behind…

South Africans go to the polls Wednesday for parliamentary, provincial and local elections. After 30 years in power, Nelson Mandela's African National Congress (ANC) party could be forced into a coalition.