By RFIPalled on 11-05-2019Modified 11-05-2019 at 21:58

Winner of the elections in South Africa, the ANC, the majority party, won with 57.5% of the vote, its worst score in 25 years. South Africans voted for their representatives in Parliament but also to elect their advisers in the 9 provinces of the country. Only one province escapes the ANC, that of Western Cape, a stronghold of the Democratic Alliance, but the ANC has come close to losing Gauteng Province where Johannesburg is the economic heart of the country.

Gauteng was by far the most disputed province in the polls. Until the last minutes of counting Saturday, the ANC was in adverse ballot. His score tutoyait the 50% to finally just exceed them before the proclamation of the results. A majority torn by the shortest margins that allows the party of Cyril Ramaphosa to always lead this region.

The ANC, which has been losing steam since the end of the Zuma years, had already suffered two major disappointments in the province. The municipalities of Johannesburg and Pretoria came under the colors of the opposition in 2016.

With 50.19% of the vote in the province, the ANC will not be allowed to make mistakes. The slightest divisions within the party or absences during important votes could be fatal.

Because while Gauteng is the smallest province in South Africa, it is the most strategic. The most populated first, but also the richest. It generates one-third of the South African economy. And alone, the province of Gauteng represents the seventh power of the continent, just behind Morocco.

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