South Africa’s ruling ANC said Sunday (June 2) 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. With 99.91 percent of the votes from Wednesday’s election counted, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s African National Congress had only 40.2 percent, a catastrophic slump from the 57.5 percent it won in 2019. FRANCE 24’s Douglas Herbert gives us his analysis.
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