South Africa election: ANC officials still hopeful to win

All eyes are set on South Africa’s Independent Electoral Commission.

Partial results in the national assembly election put the long-ruling African National Congress party ahead Thursday (May. 30).

However, with around 34% of votes counted by Thursday 6 PM UTC, it was still only an early picture after Wednesday’s vote.

This is the first time the ruling ANC has faced the real possibility of losing power since the country’s first democratic elections in 1994.

Speaking from Johannesburg on May 30, the party’s First Deputy Secretary General reckoned that partial results…