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The ANC party that freed South Africa from apartheid loses its 30-year majority in landmark election
AP ^ | 06/01/2024 | GERALD IMRAY AND MOGOMOTSI MAGOME

Posted on 06/01/2024 6:24:59 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The African National Congress party lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result Saturday that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule 30 years ago.

With more than 99% of votes counted, the once-dominant ANC had received just over 40% in Wednesday’s election, well short of the majority it had held since the famed all-race vote of 1994 that ended apartheid and brought it to power under Nelson Mandela. The final results are still to be formally declared by the independent electoral commission that ran the election, but the ANC cannot pass 50%.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: africa; anc; antisemites; apartheid; brics; ccp; china; geraldimray; majority; mogomotsimagome; nelsonmandela; racistorganization; sco; southafrica; terrorism; terrorists; wakanda
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Wow!
1 posted on 06/01/2024 6:24:59 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So the question is whether the ANC teams up with the (black) Communists, or the Honkies. That decision will determine the fate of South Africa.


2 posted on 06/01/2024 6:26:33 AM PDT by BobL
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’d like to see an AP headline, “ the Republican Party which freed the U.S. from slavery, restored to Power”


3 posted on 06/01/2024 6:27:32 AM PDT by sopo
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Economic Freedom Fighters

Makes me think of Carlin's quote... "Well, if Crime Fighters fight crime and Fire Firefighters fight fires, what do Freedom Fighters fight?"

4 posted on 06/01/2024 6:28:11 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

surprising - I would’ve figured they’d have gotten 81 million votes


5 posted on 06/01/2024 6:31:44 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: BobL

Given the history of the ANC, my bet is they will team up with those who will enable them to plunder and cheat even more.


6 posted on 06/01/2024 6:36:52 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A shit hole country.


7 posted on 06/01/2024 6:39:12 AM PDT by boomop1 (term limits NOW)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You beat me to it


8 posted on 06/01/2024 6:43:20 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: ChicagoConservative27

ANC did NOT free S. Africa from apartheid. DeKlerk did; and he did so knowing that whites would never win another election. It’s been unfortunate, but it was also inevitable, w/ whites outnumbered 6-to-1 at the time.


9 posted on 06/01/2024 6:50:42 AM PDT by Migraine ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Does South Africa have mail-in ballots and early voting?
10 posted on 06/01/2024 7:03:06 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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The final results are still to be formally declared by the independent electoral commission that ran the election, but the ANC cannot pass 50%.

So they aren't as creative in counting and recounting as our Democrats.

11 posted on 06/01/2024 7:07:02 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

too big to rig


12 posted on 06/01/2024 7:17:02 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The ANC traded apartheid for apart-HATE.


13 posted on 06/01/2024 7:33:51 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who needs elections...when you have machetes?


14 posted on 06/01/2024 7:36:32 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
What will be the difference?

Will murders of White farmers be addressed? How about allocation of resources such as water? Will land confiscations from Whites stop?

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15 posted on 06/01/2024 7:50:43 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I thought British and American rock starts “freed South Africa from Apartheid” with Bono in the lead?


16 posted on 06/01/2024 8:19:22 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: jeffersondem

Just a majority black population who think white people are evil.


17 posted on 06/01/2024 8:32:33 AM PDT by tinamina (Remember when Biden said “we have developed the most sophisticated voting fraud system ever”? )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Less here than meets the eye. The ANC has now split into two parties led by competing thugs. South Africa continues its decline.


18 posted on 06/01/2024 8:38:49 AM PDT by devere
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To: ChicagoConservative27

ANC still got 40% of the vote, almost double of the next closest party ... folks in SA must still be happy with their failed country, rolling blackouts, spoiled food, rampant crime, and systemic official corruption and kleptocracy ...


19 posted on 06/01/2024 8:42:26 AM PDT by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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They also have a big problem with illegals coming into the country. They are still light years ahead of any other country on the continent.


20 posted on 06/01/2024 8:44:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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