The African National Congress party lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result Saturday that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule 30 years ago.
African National Congress supporters listen to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Mose Mabhida stadium in Durban, South Africa, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, during their national manifesto launch in anticipation of the 2024 general elections. Jerome Delay
The main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, was on around 21 per cent. The new MK Party of former President Jacob Zuma, who has turned against the ANC he once led, came third with just over 14 per cent of the vote in the first election it has contested. MK and the far-left Economic Freedom Fighters have called for parts of the economy to be nationalized. The centrist Democratic Alliance is viewed as a business-friendly party and analysts say an ANC-DA coalition would be more welcomed by foreign investors.
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