President of South Africa and the African National Congress Cyril Ramaphosa greets a voter as he arrives to cast his vote for the general elections at the Hitekani Primary School, Chiawelo, Soweto, on May 8, 2019. PHOTO: Michele Spatari / AFPSouth African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s ruling ANC won re-election on Friday with an absolute majority in parliament, results showed, but with diminished support, complicating economic revival and anti-corruption efforts.
That means they will be mathematically assured more than 50 percent of votes cast in the final official tally, due to be announced Saturday. Results released by the Independent Electoral Commission showed the ANC’s closest rival, the main opposition Democratic Alliance , trailing with a distant 20.65 percent of the vote.
Ramaphosa has so far faced resistance to his reform agenda, especially from Zuma’s allies who still occupy several high-ranking positions in the party and government. But Susan Booysen, a visiting professor at the Wits School of governance, said “it is a lower percentage but it is way higher for the ANC than it would have been had Zuma been still in power”.
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