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ANC set to lose majority after watershed vote

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (2nd R) and First Lady of South Africa Tshepo Motsepe (C) react while casting their ballots at Hitekani Primary School polling station in Soweto on May 29, 2024, during South Africa's general election. [AFP]

South Africa's ruling ANC was on course to lose its 30-year-old unchallenged majority on Thursday after voters queued long into the night to cast their ballots, preliminary results and projections showed.

With a fifth of votes tallied, the ANC was leading but with a score of 44 percent -- well down on the 57 percent it won in 2019 -- followed by the liberal Democratic Alliance (DA) at 25 percent, according to authorities.

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