South Africa Votes in Local Elections as Growing Anger Threatens ANC
Voters are punishing the ruling party over corruption, crime and failing services as polls suggest it could fall below 40% support.
- South African voters cast ballots in more than 250 local contests, with unreliable services, unemployment, crime, and housing among their main concerns.
- The elections were widely viewed as a test of support for the African National Congress , whose vote share fell below 50% in 2021 and was projected by polls to fall below 40%.
- Johannesburg was among the key contests being watched, and some cities could face unstable coalition governments.
- Results were expected Sunday and could influence South Africa’s political landscape ahead of the 2029 national election.
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South Africans vote amid anger over failing services
South Africans lined up from early yesterday to vote in municipal elections, with anger over corruption, crime and failing public services threatening to inflict fresh losses on the African National Congress (ANC).At the Lawley informal settlement south of Johannesburg, long lines formed outside pol
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South Africans vote in pivotal local elections Voters in Africa’s wealthiest country have a pivotal election of their own today, with over 250 local contests nationwide. The elections are widely seen as a referendum on the African National Congress (ANC), the party that has governed South Africa since the end of apartheid, amid frustration over pervasive corruption, crumbling public services, and rising migration. The ANC has seen its standing s…
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South Africa votes in local elections as growing anger threatens ANC
South Africans queued from early on Wednesday to vote in municipalelections, with anger over corruption, crime and failing public services threatening to inflict fresh losses on the African National Congress (ANC).
The historic African National Congress (ANC) may fear a further setback with the municipal elections taking place this Wednesday, November 4. Passed below the symbolic threshold of the majority of votes in the previous local election of 2021, with 45.5 per cent of the votes, Nelson Mandela's party has again seen its support eroded in the general election of May 2024 and could this time flirt with the 30 per cent. Caroline Dumay's clarifications,…
ANC faces anger over poor services as South Africans vote in local elections
The African National Congress is on course for a bruising result in South Africa’s local elections on Wednesday as voters go to the polls amid deep discontent over water outages, power cuts and crumbling infrastructure. The former liberation movement, which Nelson Mandela led to power in 1994 at the end of apartheid as South Africa’s […]
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