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  • Reuters

    As vote nears, South Africa's Ramaphosa promises to 'do better'

    South African President Cyril Ramaphosa promised on Saturday to do more on issues including jobs and state welfare as he campaigned for elections next week that polls suggest could loosen the African National Congress' 30-year grip on power. Political parties are holding rallies in the final weekend before the national and provincial elections, which Ramaphosa called one of the most important in the country's history. If poll predictions prove accurate, the ANC could win less than 50% of the vote, meaning it would have to seek one or more coalition partners for the first time since coming to power 30 years ago under the leadership of liberation hero Nelson Mandela at the end of apartheid.

  • AFP

    Lots of yellow, little fever for disenchanted ANC supporters

    Tens of thousands of people wearing yellow T-shirts crowded Africa's biggest stadium Saturday, as the ruling but troubled African National Congress threw its last campaign bash before South Africa's tightest election in decades.Yet many in the stands felt a debt of gratitude toward the movement that brought freedom to all South Africans, ending white-minority rule, that was too big to ignore.