The Irish Times view on the South African election: uncomfortable choices lie ahead for the ANC

The party has lost its 30-year absolute majority and must now enter difficult coalition talks

President of the African National Congress and South African president Cyril Ramaphosa arrives to the official announcement of the South African general election results on Sunday is set to transform South African politics, and poses huge challenges to the party that 30 years ago successfully led the struggle for liberation and has ruled ever since.

The rout was enabled and reinforced by the country’s proportional representation system which, unlike first-past-the-post regimes, rewards with substantial parliamentary representation breakaway minorities within parties. The election’s big winner was disgraced former president Jacob Zuma, whose new party, titled after the ANC’s old military wing, uMkhonto we Sizwe , managed to grab a remarkable 14.6 per cent of the vote and wrested control of the second largest state, KwaZulu-Natal.

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