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South Africa election: Millions go to the polls as ANC's majority hangs in the balance

Source: AP

South Africans are voting on Wednesday in a national election seen as their country’s most competitive in 30 years, with opinion polls suggesting the governing African National Congress party could loses its majority.

The ANC led South Africa out of apartheid’s brutal white minority rule in 1994 with Nelson Mandela as its leader.

But the party is now the target of

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