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The Ledger

The ANC's election collapse is not a local story. It is a foreign policy crisis.

The ANC won 32.5 per cent in South Africa's local elections on 8 November. The domestic story is coalition chaos. The international story is whether South Africa's foreign policy identity — non-alignment, BRICS, the ICJ case against Israel — survives the party that built it losing its mandate.

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