The ruling African National Congress (ANC) has won South Africa's parliamentary elections with 57.5 percentage of the vote, the electoral fee said, saying the respectable results.
Saturday's win guaranteed a sixth straight time period in strength for the ANC. But the end result was the worst-ever electoral showing for the party, which has ruled South Africa seeing that the end of apartheid 25 years ago.
Support for the ANC has steadily declined on account that it took a file sixty nine percent of the vote in 2004. This year's electoral overall performance comes amid developing voter frustration over rampant corruption and high unemployment rates.
President Cyril Ramaphosa, who changed scandal-plagued Jacob Zuma last year, now faces the project of regaining public self assurance in a party that remains beset with inside divisions and which oversaw a raft of financial crises in the country.
Saturday's result, which offers the ANC 230 seats in the 400-member parliament, down from 249 in 2014, will renew pressure on Ramaphosa to decisively deal with cabinet ministers accused of corruption.
In a victory speech in the northern city of Pretoria, Ramaphosa stated the election verified "freedom and democracy reign" in South Africa.
"Our people have given all of the leaders of our united states of america a firm mandate to build a higher South Africa for all."
Earlier in the day, Jessie Duarte, ANC deputy secretary-general, struck a more sombre tone, announcing the birthday celebration would move hastily to counter corruption and extend financial growth.
"We need to correct our mistakes," she said, including that the election showed voters prefer an "ANC that is united, and in its harmony stays proper to the values and ideas on which it used to be founded."
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