ANC faces toughest test yet as South Africans vote

The ANC's rise to power in 1994 drew a line under centuries of racist oppression of the country's majority Blacks by the descendents of white settlers.

South Africans go to the poll Monday in municipal elections seen as the toughest contest yet for the ruling African National Congress (ANC), and the polls come amidst discontent over poor services and stark inequalities some twenty seven years after white minority rule ended. The ANC's rise to po

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