South Africa's ANC celebrates election victory in downtown Johannesburg

Thousands of supporters of South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) took to the streets of downtown Johannesburg on Sunday to celebrate their party's victory in last week's election despite a lower share of the vote. The ANC won 57.5% of the parliamentary vote and retained power in eight of nine provinces in President Cyril Ramaphosa's first test at the polls since he took power in February 2018. The result was the ANC's worst performance in a parliamentary vote since the end of white minority rule in 1994, when the party swept to power under Nelson Mandela.