In South Africa, a seismic moment comes as the ruling African National Congress party loses its absolute majority for the first time.
African National Congress polling agents set up a tent decorated with party paraphernalia outside a polling station in Umlazi on May 29, during South Africa's general election.party has lost its outright majority for the first time in a devastating blow for the party once led by Nelson Mandela. The ANC has dominated South African politics since winning in the first post-apartheid elections 30 years ago.
For many, the initial progress that followed liberation from white-minority rule has not been sustained. Despite significant achievements in Africa’s most industrialized nation, inequalities inherited from the apartheid regime have remained, and over the last decade, even worsened.
The MK’s success against the ANC is most significant in South Africa’s second-most populous province, KwaZulu Natal . The party won 45.90 percent of the vote, against 17.64 percent for the ANC in a landslide result.in Durban, KZN, in 1994, when he became president. Thirty years later, many voters at the same polling unit echoed a similar sentiment: frustration with the state of the country, and a desire for change.
South African President Cyril Ramaphos, center, speaks to reporters after voting his ballot Wednesday, May 29, 2024, for the general elections in Soweto, South Africa. South Africans voted in an election seen as their country’s most important in 30 years. It could put the young democracy in unknown territory.Professor David Everett at Wits School of Governance said the result forcing the ANC to partner with another party was a positive step for the country.
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