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SOUTH Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) has suffered its worst local election result since 1994, a political battering that analysts say could also have implications for its key regional ally, Zimbabwe’s ZANU PF and President Emmerson Mnangagwa.<\/p>\n
The ANC secured just 30.76% of the national vote, a steep drop from 46% in 2021 and well below the 64.82% it commanded two decades ago. Party secretary-general Fikile Mbalula described the outcome as “catastrophic”.<\/p>\n
The decline was evident across…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> SOUTH Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) has suffered its worst local election result since 1994, a political battering that analysts say could also have implications for its key regional ally, Zimbabwe’s ZANU PF and President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The ANC secured just 30.76% of the national vote, a steep drop from 46% in 2021 and well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,12864,5006,821,21239,7111,7823,7476,257,5152,13051,5267,254,30766,8841,4686,421],"class_list":["post-249674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alliance","tag-anc","tag-elections","tag-fortunes","tag-hits","tag-local","tag-mnangagwa","tag-news","tag-questions","tag-ramaphosas","tag-record","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swirl","tag-zanupf","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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