South Africa's ANC Suffers Its Worst Election Result Since 1994 as Opposition Parties Reshape the Country's Major Cities
The ruling party blamed service failures, corruption and infighting as rivals gained ground and it lost its parliamentary majority in 2024.
- Results released Sunday show the African National Congress party's share of the vote dropped to 31% in last week's local elections, as South Africans rebuked it for failing to deliver basic services such as water and electricity.
- Once commanding 70% of the vote, the ANC now faces widespread dissatisfaction over persistent poverty and infrastructure failures, prompting the party's secretary-general to call the result a "catastrophic outcome."
- Longtime opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, won 25% of the vote, bringing it closer than ever to overtaking the ANC as South African politics becomes increasingly fragmented.
- Since the era of Nelson Mandela, corruption scandals and internal infighting have damaged the ANC's reputation; the party once operated as a "broad church" but now struggles with internal factions and divisions.
- Three decades after transforming from a liberation movement into government, the ANC now serves in a national coalition following its loss of parliamentary majority in 2024, entering a period of soul-searching to rebuild voter trust.
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