South Africans Vote in Most Unpredictable Election Since 1994
- Polls show ruling party risks losing parliamentary majority
- High unemployment, crime erode support for Ramaphosa’s ANC
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South Africans are voting in an election on Wednesday that looks set to reshape a political landscape dominated for three decades by the party that Nelson Mandela led to power.
The African National Congress has won every vote since the end of White-minority rule in 1994, but its support slipped from a peak of almost 70% in 2004 to 57.5% in 2019, and most opinion polls conducted before the election point to it losing its parliamentary majority for the first time.