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ANC loses outright majority in South Africa vote
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6/3/2024
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A score of just over 40% of votes.
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The worst South Africa's ANC party has seen since the end of the apartheid in 1994.
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The results prompting the party's political opponents to call for the ANC's leader and
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current president Cyril Ramaphosa to step down.
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But his allies are showing a united front.
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If you come to us with a demand that Ramaphosa must step down as president, that is not going
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to happen.
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Voters say they've grown frustrated with the ANC over the years because of rising joblessness
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inequality and recurrent power outages.
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After losing its three-decade-old absolute majority, the ANC will now have to form a
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coalition government.
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The party's already started negotiations with the Democratic Alliance, who took over 20%
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of votes.
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And we remain committed to working constructively with those that are prepared to stand with
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us in putting the country first.
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Former President Jacob Zuma's party, Omkutuwe Sizwe, won a strong 14.6% of the vote, followed
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by Julius Malema's EFF, Economic Freedom Fighters, with a score close to 10%.
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Both parties say they're open to working with the ANC, under the right conditions.
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These results disrupted the markets, sending the runs plummeting.
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Investors, meanwhile, wait to see how the new coalition government will play out.
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Will it be to both of their advantage to combine with a solid 62% of the vote?
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Or would the ANC rather just scrape by at above 50 with a combination of small parties?
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These elections also mark a further decline in voter turnout, with less than 60% of voters
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casting their ballots this year, compared to 66% in 2019 and over 90% in the country's
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first democratic elections 30 years ago.
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