South Africa Braces for Pivotal Election

• ANC confronts its sternest electoral test in three decades.
• Democratic Alliance and Economic Freedom Fighters to challenge the ANC’s long- standing dominance.

With the announcement from President Cyril Ramaphosa setting the elections for May 29, South Africa’s political landscape is poised for a seismic shift. The African National Congress (ANC), at the helm since the apartheid era’s demise in 1994, finds itself navigating through perhaps its toughest electoral battle in thirty years.