PoliticsANC faces voter anger over poor services in South African local elections

South Africans vote in local elections amid frustration over water outages, power cuts and crumbling infrastructure. Polls put the African National Congress below a third of the vote, though it is still expected to be the largest party. Fragmented voting could leave it leading some city coalitions while losing control elsewhere.

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