ANC must bargain for power after its 30-year grip in South Africa is broken
Cyril Ramaphosa casts his vote, but his position as president is being questioned by opposition parties. Photo: Oupa Nkosi
The African National Congress party has lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result.
It 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.
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