South Africa: ANC tops legislative elections by partial results

The African National Congress (ANC), which has been in power since 1994 in South Africa, tops the legislative elections, according to preliminary results on Thursday of the Independent Electoral Commission, which covers nearly a quarter of the country's districts.

The ANC, Nelson Mandela's historic party with an absolute majority in the outgoing National Assembly, is credited with 54.65% of the vote, according to the figures.

The Democratic Alliance (DA), the main opposition party, comes in second place with 26.49% of the vote, largely ahead of the country's third largest political force, the radical leftist party Fighters for Economic Freedom (EFF) with 8.07%.......