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Voting in 2024 elections was held to elect a new 400-member National Assembly in the country’s nine provinces. Seats are allocated proportionally to each party based on the percentage of votes they receive—meaning ANC’s 40 percent votes gets it 40 percent of the seats. The decline in ANC’s fortunes, anticipated by analysts, has been building up politically for over a decade. And it somewhat mirrors the decline of India’s grand old party, the Congress, which, like the ANC’s struggle against apartheid, was the key figure in India’s own freedom movement. ANC’s political trajectory in South Africa aligns with INC’s in...