The count from more than 12,000 of the 23,000 polling stations raised the strong possibility that the ANC would need a coalition partner.
South Africa could be heading towards a national coalition government for the first time as partial election results put the ruling African Nation Congress well short of a majority.
The commission that runs the election said those would be announced by Sunday although they could come sooner. It has been the dominant political force and its slipping below 50% would be a momentous change for Africa’s most advanced economy. While the inequalities of apartheid were always going to be hard to solve, the ANC has also been blamed by many for failures in basic government services, numerous government corruption scandals and most recently an electricity crisis that led to rolling blackouts across the country of 62 million.
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