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South Africa's crucial national election could lead to historic power shift as ANC faces challenge to maintain majority.

Access to electricity – measured by the share of individuals who use electricity as their main energy source – has significantly improved in lower-income countries in recent decades. Thanks to large-scale rural electrification and infrastructure development programmes, 90% of the population in these countries had access by 2021, up from…

As South Africans vote in the country's general election this Wednesday, we focus on the state of the economy after three decades under the rule of the African National Congress. In this edition, we see how the country's crumbling energy infrastructure has hampered economic activity and explore the reasons behind…

South Africans go to the polls Wednesday for parliamentary, provincial and local elections. After 30 years in power, Nelson Mandela's African National Congress (ANC) party could be forced into a coalition.