South Africa’s ANC Courts Rivals After Election Humiliation
- ANC loses its majority for first time in three decades
- Former President Zuma’s new party gets 58 seats in parliament
Supporters of the African National Congress (ANC) outside the Iziko Lobomi community centre polling station in Imizamo Yethu, South Africa, on May 29.
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South Africa’s African National Congress has begun talks with rivals to form a government following its worst performance since Nelson Mandela led it to power at the end of apartheid in 1994.
The ANC obtained 159 of the 400 seats in the National Assembly in the May 29 elections, the electoral commission announced on Sunday, a precipitous decline from the 230 seats President Cyril Ramaphosa’s party won five years ago.