South Africans voted in the seventh democratic national and provincial elections. The ANC campaigned on its governing record and manifesto, while opposition parties challenged its performance and offered alternative programmes. The election tested the ANC’s historic authority as a liberation movement in a society where racialised wealth and land inequalities persisted three decades after apartheid. For the first time since 1994, the ANC would not secure a national parliamentary majority.
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