The Latest Breaking News from Cyril Ramaphosa

The former president’s MK gained at the expense of the ANC which is set to lose its majority for the first time.

South Africa's ruling ANC was on track Friday to score its worst electoral result ever, with the latest tallies showing voters deserted the party in droves and ended its 30-year political dominance.

Ballot counting started on Thursday after South Africans queued late into the night to cast their votes in a pivotal election that could bring an end to the ANC's three-decade-long unchallenged majority since the end of apartheid

Very early counts in South Africa's national election put the long-ruling African National Congress at just over 42% of the vote, raising the possibility that it might lose its majority for the first time since it swept to power under Nelson Mandela at the end of apartheid in 1994.

Ballot counting was under way Thursday after South Africans queued long into the night to vote in a watershed election that could spell the end of the ANC's 30-year-old unchallenged majority.

ANC majority in national election at risk for first time since 1990s as unemployment, corruption and power cuts erode support

Thirty years after Nelson Mandela took over as country’s first Black president, the party faces a credibility crisis.

Cyril Ramaphosa has promised to ‘do better’ but lingering poverty and unemployment threaten his party’s three-decade grip on power

South Africa's crucial national election could lead to historic power shift as ANC faces challenge to maintain majority.