South Africa’s ANC To Start Coalition Talks After Bruising Vote

South Africa’s ruling ANC said Sunday that it would enter talks with other parties to form a new government, after losing its three-decade-old absolute majority in a watershed election.

“The voters of South Africa have shown that they expect the leaders of this country to work together in the interests of all,” he said.The party must negotiate a coalition government or at least persuade others to back Ramaphosa’s re-election in parliament to allow him to form a minority administration.

The final results are to be formally announced Sunday, with Ramaphosa due to deliver an address during an official ceremony near Johannesburg.The largest and most vocal was former president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe , which warned electoral authorities against going ahead with the final announcements.

DA chairwoman Helen Zille said all options were on the table, including allowing the ANC to rule alone as a minority government. Other analysts said their demands might be hard to meet, and the rift between Ramaphosa and Zuma — who has long been bitter about the way he was forced out of office in 2018 — too far reaching to mend.But Mbalula said that was “a no-go area”.Zuma, who was forced out of office in 2018 under a cloud of corruption allegations, was jailed for contempt of court in 2021, an event that triggered riots in which more than 350 people died.

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