If the ruling ANC is confirmed as dropping below 50 percent of vote share, it would force them to seek coalition partners to be re-elected to form a new government.
South Africa 's ruling ANC was on course to lose its 30-year-old unchallenged majority after voters queued long into the night to cast their ballots, preliminary results and projections showed.
The leftist Economic Freedom Fighters was in third place with nine percent of the vote, trailed by former president Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe on eight. The party remains respected for its leading role in overthrowing white minority rule, and its progressive social welfare and black economic empowerment policies are credited by supporters with helping millions of black families out of poverty.
"Zuma ran this country perfectly so let's put him back and let South Africa run again," Don Naidoo, a middle-aged small business owner from the province's largest city of Durban, told AFP.
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