ANC party loses its 30-year parliamentary majority in South Africa

The African National Congress party lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result Saturday that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule 30 years ago.

ANC party loses its 30-year parliamentary majority in South Africa
An election worker empties a ballot box.

The African National Congress party lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result Saturday that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule 30 years ago.