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The African National Congress lost its political monopoly on South Africa
after election results on Saturday showed that with almost all of the
votes counted, the party had received only about 40 percent, falling short
of winning an absolute majority for the first time since vanquishing
Africa�s last white-led regime 30 years ago.

With South Africans facing one of the world�s highest unemployment rates, shortages of electricity and water and rampant crime, the governing party
still bested its competitors but fell far short of the nearly 58 percent
of the vote it won in the last election, in 2019.

The staggering nosedive for Africa�s oldest liberation movement put one of
the continent�s most stable countries and its largest economy onto an
uneasy and uncharted course.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/01/world/africa/south-africa-election- results.html

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