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South Africa local elections: ANC loses in capital Pretoria South Africa's governing African National Congress has been defeated by the opposition Democratic Alliance in local polls in the capital Pretoria. The DA took 43% of the vote compared with the ANC's 41% in Tshwane, the municipality that includes Pretoria. The DA will need to form a coalition in order to secure control there. In the country's largest city, Johannesburg, the ANC beat the DA but fell short of an outright majority, with 44% of the vote. The ANC has also lost Nelson Mandela Bay metropolitan area in the Eastern Cape, which includes Port Elizabeth, to the DA. It is the ANC's worst electoral performance since it was elected to power at the end of apartheid and the replacement of white minority rule by democracy in 1994, and the first time since then that it has lost control of the capital. The DA has won 93 seats in Tshwane while the ANC is second with 89 seats in the 214-seat municipal council. Observers say a host of corruption scandals and internal party squabbles are to blame for the ANC's decline. The South African economy has stagnated since 2008's global financial crisis, and the country has one of the highest rates of economic inequality in the world. Revelations that upgrades to President Jacob Zuma's private home were funded with $20m of public money caused an outcry. The Constitutional Court recently instructed Mr Zuma to reimburse the state $507,000. ANC's influence in decline: Milton Nkosi, BBC News, South Africa The municipal election result is probably the biggest wake-up call the governing ANC has received since it ushered in democracy in South Africa in 1994. Clearly the ANC still commands huge support across the country but that support is waning. It can no longer take it for granted that the black majority will blindly follow it. A good example is in the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, won by the DA, which has a rich history of anti-apartheid struggle. Its new DA mayor is Athol Trollip, who is white. Twenty-two years after the end of apartheid, black people are now voting on issues and not on race. Mr Trollip, who speaks fluent Xhosa, would not be where he is if the vast majority of black people had not voted for him. The party of late President Mandela, the icon of the struggle against apartheid, still commands strong support with about 54% of the national vote. The DA has received about 27%, while the radical Economic Freedom Fighters party - contesting local elections for the first time - has taken about 8%. The DA's leader, 36-year-old Mmusi Maimane, told reporters: "For far too long, the ANC has governed South Africa with absolute impunity." He added that the idea that his party - which has its roots in the non-ANC opposition to apartheid - was a white one had been "completely shattered". The ANC said it would "reflect and introspect where our support has dropped". In a brief address before the final results were announced, 74-year-old President Zuma praised the conduct of a vote he called largely peaceful, free and fair. "Our democracy is maturing," he said. "Let us get back to work and build our country together."
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दक्षिण अफ्रिकामा सत्तारुढ दल पराजित दक्षिण अफ्रिकाको स्थानिय चुनावमा सत्तारुढ आफ्रिकी नेशनल कंग्रेस एएनसीले हालसम्मकै नराम्रो हार भोगेको छ। रंगभेदी शासन अन्त्य भएपछि अल्पसंख्यक गोरा समुदायलाई विस्थापित गर्दै शक्तिमा आएको उक्त पार्टीको यो अहिलेसम्मकै खराब चुनावी परिणाम हो। एएनसी देशको सबैभन्दा ठूलो शहर जहानेशवर्गमा आफ्नो पकड कायम राख्न सफल भयो। तर राजधानी प्रिटोरिया र पोर्ट एलिजावेथमा उसलाई विपक्षी डेमोक्रेटिक एलायन्सले पछि पारेको छ। प्रयास दक्षिण अफ्रिकाका राष्ट्रपति जेकोब जुमाले पार्टीको पराजयपछि पनि आफु बलियै रहेको देखाउने प्रयास गरेका छन्। उनले भने, “दक्षिण अफ्रिकीहरुको जनमत र सत्ता हस्तान्तरणबारेको निर्णयका कारण हामी संधैँ गौरवान्वित छौँ। मतपेटिका मार्फत यो शान्तिपूर्ण रुपमा भइरहेको छ। हाम्रो प्रजातन्त्र परिपक्व बनिरहेका छौँ।” सन् १९९४ मा प्रजातन्त्र आएपछि उक्त दलले पहिलो पटक राजधानी प्रिटोरियामा पराजय व्यहोरेको छ। स्थानिय तहको चुनावको परिणाम एएनसीको लागि एउटा ठूलो सच्चिने मौका भएको टिप्पणीहरु आएका छन्। दक्षिण अफ्रिकाका नेता नेल्सन मण्डेलासँगै २० वर्ष जेलमा विताएका एएनसीका वरिष्ठ नेता डेनिस गोल्डमेनले पार्टीले आफ्नै कारण चुनावमा पराजित भएको बताएका छन्। उनले भने “एएनसीले संघर्षका क्रममा र सन् १९९४ को स्वतन्त्रतापछिको एक दशकसम्म कायम राखेको आफ्नो नैतिक धरातल गुमाएको छ। भ्रष्ट्राचार, कृपावाद, अनि आफुले प्रतिनिधित्व गर्ने जनतालाई सेवा दिनुभन्दा आफैंलाई धनी बनाउने प्रवृत्ति पार्टि भित्र बढेको छ।” मुद्दा अहिले पनि उक्त दलका देश भर ठूलो संख्यामा समर्थकहरु छन्। तर त्यो विस्तारै कमजोर हुँदै गएको छ। एएनसीले संघर्षका क्रममा र सन् १९९४ को स्वतन्त्रतापछिको एक दशकसम्म कायम राखेको आफ्नो नैतिक धरातल गुमाएको छ बहुसंख्यक अश्वेतहरुले अन्धभक्त भएर आफुलाई भोट हाल्ने अवस्था नरहेको एएनसीले आत्मसात गर्नुपर्ने अवस्था देखिएको दक्षिण अफ्रिकामा रहेका एक जना बीबीसी संवाददाता बताउँछन्। सबैभन्दा राम्रो उदाहरण रंगभेदी शासन विरुद्धको गौरवपूर्ण संघर्षको इतिहास भएको नेल्शन मण्डेला बे नगरपालिकाको चुनावी परिणाम हो, जहाँ विपक्षी डेमोक्रेटिक एलायन्सका उम्मेदवारले जित हात पारेका छन्। त्यहाँका नयाँ नगरप्रमुख गोरा जातिका छन्। रंगभेदी शासन अन्त्य भएको २० वर्षपछि दक्षिण अफ्रिकामा अश्वेत मानिसहरुले जात नभई यसपटक मुद्दाका आधारमा मतदान गरेको पाइएको छ।