The African National Congress looks likely to win the most parliamentary seats but fall short of a majority for the first time in three decades.
A voter casts her ballot during a special vote at the Glebe Community Hall voting station in Umlazi on Tuesday, the day before South African elections. People were already lined up outside the polling stations before voting even began on Wednesday, as South Africa held a historic election that could see the ruling African National Congress lose its parliamentary majority after three decades in power.
ANC officials have been promising increasingly disillusioned voters that the party will tackle the persistent daily power cuts, economic stagnation and corruption that have But South Africa also has one of the world’s highest and most persistent inequality rates. Its murder and unemployment rates are also near the top of global tables.The ANC swept into power in 1994 as liberators promising to right the wrongs of apartheid, when the White-led government impoverished, brutalized and killed Black citizens. In the first decade of its rule, the ANC built vast swaths of subsidized housing for poor families and poured money into social spending.
Polling stations opened in South Africa on May 29 for the most competitive election since the end of apartheid. It’s likely that the ANC will need to form a coalition for the first time. Its best bet is an alliance with the plethora of small parties, which would dilute the influence of any one of them and leave real power concentrated in the hand of the ANC.
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