South Africa's ANC faces coalition crisis in key province after partner withdraws

The African National Congress (ANC) is scrambling to hold its governing coalition together in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province. The National Freedom Party (NFP) has made a surprise decision to withdraw from the coalition, forcing the ANC to seek urgent talks to try to salvage the arrangement.

Separately, the South African National Civic Organisation (SANCO) publicly praised the ANC's historic role as a liberation movement. This comes as the ANC, which lost its national parliamentary majority in recent elections, navigates complex coalition politics to maintain governance in several regions.