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SOUTH Africa’s Independent Electoral Commission announced last night that the final results of municipal elections will be confirmed this evening, but they are already a disaster for the African National Congress.
The ANC, which led the anti-apartheid struggle to win democracy, accepted defeat yesterday in the municipality of Nelson Mandela Bay, which includes Port Elizabeth.
ANC secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa said: “We lost Nelson Mandela Bay and we have conceded that we have lost it and we are going to do an introspective look on ourselves and our members will be involved in that.”
ROGER MCKENZIE recalls the one-in-a-generation communist leader murdered at the dawn of a new South Africa 33 years ago last April 10
ROGER McKENZIE looks at how ancient traditions practiced today can be the cornerstone of anti-imperialism in Africa
The shared path of the South African Communist Party and the ANC to the ballot box has found itself at a junction. SABINA PRICE reports
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