# ANC faces anger over poor services as South Africans vote in local elections

- Source: Guardian World
- Published: 2026-11-04T04:00:23+00:00
- Category: Local
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/04/anc-south-africa-local-elections-water-outages-power-cuts
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/anc-faces-anger-over-poor-services-as-south-africans-vote-in-local-ele-932e53/

Party expected to get less than a third of the vote amid frustration over water outages and power cuts The African National Congress is on course for a bruising result in South Africa’s local elections on Wednesday as voters go to the polls amid deep discontent over water outages, power cuts and crumbling infrastructure. The former liberation movement, which Nelson Mandela led to power in 1994 at

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