The ANC has been in power ever since the first democratic, all-race election of April 27, 1994, the vote that officially ended apartheid. Analysts and polls predict that the waning popularity of the party once led by Nelson Mandela is likely to see it lose its parliamentary majority for the first time. Ramaphosa conceded there had been “setbacks” The 1994 election changed South Africa from a country where Black and other nonwhite people were denied most basic freedoms, not just the right