South Africa Election 2024 LIVE | ANC Loses Majority for First Time After 30 years | DA-MK | N18G

Live from South African election results centre in Midrand as votes are tallied MIDRAND, SOUTH AFRICA - Live coverage of activity at the IEC National Results Centre as election results are counted up. Please monitor for press conferences from officials and party representatives. South Africans angry at joblessness, inequality and power shortages slashed support for the African National Congress (ANC) to 40% in this week’s election, ending three decades of dominance by the party that freed the country from apartheid. A dramatically weakened mandate for the legacy party of Nelson Mandela, down from the 57.5% it garnered in the 2019 parliamentary election, means the ANC must share power with a rival in order to keep it - an unprecedented prospect. “We can talk to everybody and anybody,“ Gwede Mantashe, the ANC chair and current mines and energy minister, told reporters in comments carried by the South African Broadcasting Corporation, dodging a question about who the party was discu