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South African président Cyril Ramaphosa reacts after being reelected as leader of the country in Cape Town, South Africa, Friday, June 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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South Africa's President Ramaphosa is reelected for second term after a dramatic late coalition deal
By GERALD IMRAY AND MOGOMOTSI MAGOME - Associated Press
Fri,06/14/24-2:43AM , 132 Reads
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was reelected by lawmakers for a second term on Friday, after his party struck a dramatic late coalition deal with a former political foe just hours before the vote.
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AP correspondent Charles de Ledesma reports the ANC party that freed South Africa from apartheid loses its 30-year majority.

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The ANC party that freed South Africa from apartheid loses its 30-year majority in landmark election
By GERALD IMRAY AND MOGOMOTSI MAGOME - Associated Press
Sat,06/01/24-2:28AM , 101 Reads
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The African National Congress party lost its majority in a historic election result Saturday that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule
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A woman casts her ballot at a polling station, during general elections in Eshowe, South Africa, Wednesday May 29, 2024. South Africans are voting in an election seen as their country's most important in 30 years, and one that could put them in unknown territory in the short history of their democracy, the three-decade dominance of the African National Congress party being the target of a new generation of discontent in a country of 62 million people — half of whom are estimated to be living in poverty. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Partial count in South Africa election puts ruling ANC below 50% as country senses momentous change
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Thu,05/30/24-5:41AM , 119 Reads
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Partial results in South Africa's national election put the long-ruling African National Congress party at well below 50% of the vote as counting continued Thursday, and it could be on the brink of losing its majority for
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Oscar Pistorius leaves the High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, Wednesday, June 15, 2016, after his sentencing proceedings. Pistorius could be granted parole on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023 after nearly 10 years in prison for killing his girlfriend. The double-amputee Olympic runner was convicted of a charge comparable to third-degree murder for shooting Reeva Steenkamp in his home in 2013. He has been in prison since late 2014. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

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South African Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius granted parole, will be released from prison on Jan. 5
By GERALD IMRAY AND MOGOMOTSI MAGOME - Associated Press
Thu,11/23/23-6:04PM , 109 Reads
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Double-amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was granted parole Friday, 10 years after shooting his girlfriend through a toilet door at his home in South Africa in a killing that jolted the world. He will be released from prison on Jan.
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