This election has been a high-stakes affair with many potential pitfalls, but the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) has managed to successfully navigate through it all.

The governing party faces the risk of losing its long-standing majority which gave it exclusive control over the levers of power for three decades. In other countries where a similar scenario has played out there was an illegitimate power grab.  ..

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