Zuma eyes presidency after ANC win
South Africa's ANC has won a voter majority in the national elections, clearing the way for parliament to elect Jacob Zuma as president.
Preliminary results from Wednesday's poll showed that more than half of all registered voters gave their support to the ANC.
By early on Saturday the ruling party had more than 11.6 million votes from those ballots that had been counted. More than 23 million people are registered to vote.
However, results posted at the counting centre showed a 77.28% turnout, giving the ANC 66.03% of the votes counted.
Counting is almost complete, but election officials are expected to delay any announcement of the result until later in the day. This is to allow for outstanding objections to be resolved.
Mr Zuma is expected to be elected president when the new assembly votes in May.
