South Africa votes with long ANC dominance under threat

South Africa votes with long ANC dominance under threat

South African voters turn out for a watershed general election Wednesday, with the ANC's exclusive grip on power in doubt for the first time in three decades of democracy.

With opposition challenges from both the left and right, unemployment and crime at near record levels and a new generation growing up with no memory of the struggle against white-minority rule, the ruling party may need to share power.