• South Africa Election: ANC Loses Majority for the First Time in 30 Year

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    The African National Congress lost its political monopoly on South Africa
    after election results on Saturday showed that with almost all of the
    votes counted, the party had received only about 40 percent, falling short
    of winning an absolute majority for the first time since vanquishing
    Africa’s last white-led regime 30 years ago.

    With South Africans facing one of the world’s highest unemployment rates, shortages of electricity and water and rampant crime, the governing party
    still bested its competitors but fell far short of the nearly 58 percent
    of the vote it won in the last election, in 2019.

    The staggering nosedive for Africa’s oldest liberation movement put one of
    the continent’s most stable countries and its largest economy onto an
    uneasy and uncharted course.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/01/world/africa/south-africa-election- results.html

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