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Zuma admits S.Africans 'not happy' with ruling ANC party. SOUNDBITE
South Africa's ruling ANC expels its former leader ex-president Jacob Zuma for leading a rival party into elections following disciplinary proceedings. "Former President Jacob Zuma has actively impugned the integrity of the ANC and campaigned to dislodge the ANC from power while claiming that he had not yet severed his membership," ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula tells a press conference. SOUNDBITE
South Africans vote in what may be the most consequential election in decades, as dissatisfaction with the ruling ANC threatens to end its 30-year political dominance. 27 million registered voters called to elect a new parliament, which then chooses a president, for the first time since the advent of democracy in 1994, the African National Congress is at risk of losing its outright majority and could be forced to negotiate a coalition. IMAGES
Former South Africa President Jacob Zuma leaves Johannesburg's Constitutional court as it was hearing an appeal to have him declared ineligible to stand for office in a politically charged legal showdown set to raise tensions before the tightest election in decades. IMAGES
The general secretary of the ANC, Paul Mashatile, tells the press that the National Executive Committee "will vote against the adoption of the report of the section 89 panel" which alleges that President Cyril Ramaphosa was involved in a cover-up on a robbery on his farm. SOUNDBITE
First voters in Soweto cast their ballots in South Africa's local elections, a few months after a wave of riots and looting rocked the country. Polls suggest a majority of voters could for the first time turn against the ANC, which has governed nationally since Nelson Mandela's election ended white rule in 1994. IMAGES
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