South Africa's ANC talking to 'everybody and anybody' for new coalition after losing majority

With more than 99 per cent of the vote count ed, South Africa 's ANC is set to lose its parliamentary majority for the first time in 30 years.

A dramatically weakened mandate for the legacy party of Nelson Mandela, down from the 57.5 per cent it got in the 2019 parliamentary election, means the ANC must now share power with a rival in order to remain in government — an unprecedented prospect.While the ANC looks likely to remain the country's largest political force, voters appear to have punished the former liberation movement for years of decline.

The ANC has won every previous national election by a landslide since the historic 1994 vote that ended white minority rule, but over the last decade its support has dwindled as the economy stagnated, unemployment rose and roads and power stations crumbled. However, some parties have questioned what they say are vote-counting inconsistencies that may lead to some results being contested.

On Friday, however, a top ANC official backed him to stay on as party leader and analysts say he has no obvious successor.

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