South Africa local elections: ANC faces losses amid anger over services
The ANC is expected to win less than a third of the vote as South Africans cast local election ballots amid frustration over failing services.
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South Africans voted in local elections on Wednesday amid widespread frustration with water disruptions, electricity cuts and deteriorating infrastructure, with polling pointing to a sharp setback for the African National Congress.
The ANC was still expected to finish as the largest party, but polls put its support below one-third of the vote. That would mark a decline from 45.6% in the 2021 municipal elections and 40.2% in the 2024 national election.
The former liberation movement came to power under Nelson Mandela in 1994 as apartheid ended and he became South Africa’s first black president.
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