Early indications from just over 11% of polls show the ANC gaining 42.83% of support.
Reuters reported that the country's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research separately predicted that the ANC will gain roughly 42% of the national vote.
Residents line up to cast ballots in the national election on May 29, 2024 in Matatiele, South Africa.South African's governing African National Congress appears set to lose majority control in the country's most seismic political transition since the end of the apartheid. Early indications from just over 11% of polls show the ANC gaining 42.83% of support, with the Democratic Alliance wresting 25.56% of votes, and the Marxist Economic Freedom Fighters in tow with 8.28%.
Reuters reported that the country's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research separately predicted that the ANC will gain roughly 42% of the national vote, off projections made when 8.5% of polling stations had recorded results.The news may impact investors, after the ANC — the party of Nelson Mandela, emblematic of the struggle for liberation from white minority rule — centered its economic policy on inclusivity and lifting living standards for the disadvantaged.
"Under my leadership the ANC ran a formidable and clean campaign with our volunteers covering the length and breadth of our country. The democratic process is going to emerge victorious," ANC leader and South Africa's incumbent President Cyril Ramaphosa, 71, said Wednesday on social media.was up 1.31% against the South African rand at 8:30 a.m. London time, following the report. The main Johannesburg stock index was down 1.8% on Thursday morning.
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