ANC set to enjoy another election win

Despite lingering poverty, high unemployment and an AIDS crisis, gratitude to the party that toppled apartheid a decade ago appeared to guarantee the African National Congress a landslide South African general election victory today.

The ANC was leading with about 69% support, compared to just 14% for its nearest rival, the white-led Democratic Alliance, electoral officials said, with votes declared in more than half of the 16,966 polling stations.