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JOHANNESBURG - South Africans vote on Wednesday in the most competitive election since the end of apartheid, with opinion polls suggesting the African National Congress will lose its parliamentary majority after 30 years in government.
However, the ANC is still on course to win the largest share of the vote, meaning that its leader President Cyril Ramaphosa is likely to remain in office, unless he faces an internal challenge if the party's performance is worse than expected. More than 27 million South Africans are registered to vote at over 23,000 polling stations that will be open from 0500 GMT to 1900 GMT.
Also hoping to gain leverage, the Economic Freedom Fighters, founded by a firebrand former leader of the ANC's youth wing, want to nationalise mines and banks and seize land from white farmers to address racial and economic disparities.
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