The ANC maintains an absolute majority in parliament, results showed, but with diminished support. 'The ANC is never going to perform any better, it's a dying party', says one political analyst.
After casting his ballot on Wednesday, Ramaphosa said the election was"heralding a new dawn... a period of renewal, a period of hope".
But Susan Booysen, a visiting professor at the Wits School of governance, said"it is a lower percentage but it is way higher for the ANC than it would have been had Zuma been still in power".
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