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ANC on track to lose majority after watershed South Africa vote

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An IEC opens a ballot box as counting begins at the Addington Primary School after voting ended at the sixth national general elections in Durban on Wednesday. [AFP]

South Africa's ruling ANC was on course to lose its 30-year-old parliamentary majority on Thursday, opening the prospect that the party that defeated apartheid will have to share power for the first time.

With a third of votes in Wednesday's election tallied, the ANC was leading but with a score of only 42 percent - well below the 57 percent it won in 2019.

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