While the ANC looks likely to remain the country's largest political force, voters appear to have punished the former liberation movement for years of decline.
South Africa 's ANC is set to lose its parliamentary majority for the first time in 30 years after suffering a major drop in support.
While the ANC looked likely to remain the country's largest political force, voters appear to have punished the former liberation movement for years of decline.The ANC had won every previous national election since the historic 1994 vote that ended white minority rule, but over the last decade South Africans have watched the economy stagnate, unemployment and poverty climb and infrastructure crumble, leading to regular power outages.
"The data in the data centre remains intact and the results have not been compromised … result processing continues unaffected," the commission said in a statement. In the township of Botleng — once a source of cheap farm labour for the country's hated white minority ex-rulers — roads are riddled with potholes, power cuts are frequent and unemployed youths smoke cheap heroin to ease boredom and despair.
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