ANC Support Slips Again With 76% of South Africa Voting Districts in
Supporters of the African National Congress outside a polling station in Imizamo Yethu, South Africa on May 29.
Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg
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South Africa’s ruling African National Congress has suffered further slippage in support with 76% of voting districts tallied.
The electoral commission said the party had polled 41.5% of votes cast on May 29, or a few tenths of a percentage point less than two hours before. That keeps it on track to lose its national majority for the first time since taking power in 1994, as South Africans rebuked it for a decade of sluggish growth and sky-high unemployment.