The African National Congress (ANC) party has lost its parliamentary majority in South Africa.
This is happening for the first time since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule 30 years ago.
In the election held May 29th, the ANC had received nearly 40 percent of the votes with the main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), gathering 21.63 percent and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), a new party led by former president and ANC leader Jacob Zuma, managing to grab 14.71 percent.
This is far from the majority it had held since the all-race vote of 1994 that ended apartheid and brought it to power under Nelson Mandela.
through for a country struggling with deep poverty and inequality, but the ANC remained the biggest party by some way.
“The way to rescue South Africa is to break the ANC’s majority and we have done that,” said main opposition leader John Steenhuisen.
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